Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN: Emefiele Is a Politician
By Elem Kash
Godwin Emefiele, former CBN Governor is a politician, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika SAN alleges on television.A legal practitioner, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN, says former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele is a politician.
The lawyer who was a guest on the Morning Show broadcast by Arise News on Sunday alleged that Emefiele left is task at the CBN to dabble into politics.
“Emefiele is a politician”, the respected Senior Advocate of Nigeria emphasized while fielding questions.
He said Emefiele who was expected to approach his assignment at the CBN as a professional rather seemingly chose to join politicians in their game.
Olumide-Fusika noted that many have forgotten that the banker openly canvassed to be president of Nigeria.
“We hear that he has been charged”, the lawyer said while commenting directly on the handling of his case by the Directorate of State Services, DSS.
He observed that the court had asked the secret police to “go and charge him. So, they charged him for something.”
Olumide-Fusika describes charge against Emefiele as a “mockery” and an attempt to obey court order by the DSS.Olumide-Fusika described the charge preferred against for possessing a dane gun as a “mockery” of the process, saying the DSS may still have something weighty against Emefiele.
“Apart from making mockery, they charged him to court”, the experienced lawyer said, stressing that the leadership of the DSS obeyed the court order.
Emphasising that the DSS had no reason to seek the order of a court to hold somebody longer than necessary, he noted, “Don’t arrest until you are ready to charge. That is what the constitution says.”
He acknowledged that the DSS has been investigating Emefiele long before they nabbed him, saying “one would have thought they would charge him for something concrete.”
Reacting to reports that Bawa, former Chairman of the EFCC is refusing to write a statement before the DSS, the lawyer said the head of the anti-corruption agency was acting well within his right.
But Olumide-Fusika said EFCC and other security operatives who are in the habit of coaxing Nigerians can now see through Bawa’s refusal to write a statement what ordinary people are compelled to suffer when they make statements under duress.
He said police operatives are by their conduct in public obviously trained to be rude to those who come across them.
According to him, lawyers permitted by law to stand with their clients that are under investigation have been abused and harassed by law enforcement agents.
He however admitted that there is a new law which requires law enforcement agents to record persons under interrogation.
The SAN added that the intention of the new law was to ensure that people are not compelled by any means to make statements under duress.