Diezani Alison-Madueke should also be fired – APC senators

 

REACTIONS have continued to trail the recent suspension of the Governor of Central Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Senate has declared the suspension of the CBN boss by President Goodluck Jonathan as illegal and unconstitutional.

Meanwhile, the Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos,Friday restrained the police, the Department of State Services, DSS, and other security agencies from arresting the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

The court presided over by Justice Ibrahim Buba gave the order after listening to Sanusi’s exparte application brought against the Inspector General of Police, IGP, and the DSS, under fundamental rights.

CBN Gov, Sanusi and Minister of Petroleum Resources, Alison-Madueke

Sanusi who was dressed in his usual turtle-neck suit arrived the court at about 3pm in two black Jeeps as the matter was heard in chambers.

Buba however, adjourned the substantive suit till February 28, when the other parties would have been put on notice.

The APC Senators said that they have started compiling all the constitutional breaches and flagrant violations of the laws by President Jonathan which their lawyers were scrutinizing for appropriate and necessary action.

They (APC Senators) told the President if he was serious with the issue of financial recklessness as alleged as the reason for firing Sanusi, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke should also be fired for the same reason.

But some Senators including some  in the opposition have said that the testimony by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke at the senate investigative hearing by the Senate Committee on Finance had exonerated the petroleum Minister from any allegations.