(Breaking news) SSS detains Sanusi,seizes his passport

Officials of the State Security Service, SSS, have seized the
travelling documents of suspended Governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, shortly after he arrived Lagos
from Niger, where he had gone to attend a meeting of governors of
central banks in the West African sub-region.
Shortly after his plane landed at the ExecuJet Terminal of the
Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, he was
accosted by plain clothe operatives who detained him briefly and
insisted he must surrender his passport.
They also insisted that he would not be allowed to leave the airport
until the Lagos state director of the SSS arrives. But after a
while, the operatives had a change of heart after communicating
with their superiors. The CBN governor was allowed to leave but
only after his passport was confiscated. PREMIUM TIMES
had earlier exclusively reported the plans to arrest Mr. Sanusi on
his return to the country from neighbouring Niger.
The governor was suspended in absentia, while attending a three-
day meeting of the West African Central Bank Governors.
The embattled governor had himself became aware of the plan to
arrest him, compelling him to change his travel plans. He landed in
Lagos instead of Abuja.
In Lagos, Mr. Sanusi’s associates and friends, led by a former
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai,
were on hand to receive him at the airport.
They drove out of the airport in a convoy heading towards Ikoyi.
A member of the delegation said Mr. Sanusi was heading to a
friend’s place to relax.
Earlier today, the President ordered the immediate suspension of
Mr. Sanusi from office, saying his tenure had been characterized
by various acts of financial recklessness and misconduct inconsistent
with the administration’s vision of a Central Bank propelled by the
core values of focused economic management, prudence,
transparency and financial discipline.
However, many Nigerians believe the CBN governor was axed
because he exposed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,
NNPC, as an harbinger of corruption and financial
mismanagement, diverting huge federal revenues accruing to the
nation from the sale of crude oil. Mr. Sanusi says as much as $20
billion oil money is missing.
The President, in a statement by Reuben Abati, his Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity, ordered the Central Bank
governor to hand over to the most senior Deputy Governor of the
bank, Mrs. Alade who will serve as Acting Governor until the
conclusion of ongoing investigations into alleged breaches of enabling
laws, due process and mandate of the Central Bank.

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