Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has described the revelations on former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, as high treason deserving of a capital punishment.
Onanuga was reacting to revelations made by the report of the Special Investigator on CBN and Related Entities, Jim Obazee, which was made available to the media on Thursday.
Among other infractions, it was discovered that Emefiele invested public money (billions of dollars) in 593 accounts in the United States, China and the United Kingdom without authorisation.
In the UK alone, Emefiele kept £543,482, 213 in fixed deposits without authorisation by the CBN Board and the Investment Committee.
Also, about N1.7 trillion spent on COVID 19 intervention management did not get to the right beneficiaries.
However, in a tweet on his verified X handle, aonanuga@1956, the Presidential Spokesperson said if Emefiele’s infractions had been committed in a country like China, his penalty would have been death by firing squad for high treason.
“If Godwin Emefiele and his gang had committed these egregious misappropriations in China, they will by now be facing the firing squad for high treason”, Onanuga said.
