Emefiele Still On Official Assignment – CBN To Lawmakers

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has told the House of Representatives on Tuesday that it’s Governor, Godwin Emefiele, is still on official assignment, therefore he couldn’t appear before the house as planned.

Naija News reports that this is the second time the CBN boss has failed to appear before the house in a week to answer to the latest policy by the apex bank which sets limits to cash withdrawals at the Deposit Money Banks and other financial institutions.

However, the CBN wrote the House again to say Emefiele was still on official assignment.

This was after the apex bank, in a letter by the Deputy Governor, Corporate Services, Edward Adamu, told lawmakers last Thursday that Emefiele was part of the entourage of President Muhammadu Buhari on an official trip to the United States.

The House was to grill Emefiele over the policy on Thursday last week but he failed to appear before the lawmakers.

Deputy Speaker of the House, Ahmed Wase, who read out the letter to members at the opening of plenary last Thursday, said the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, had rescheduled Emefiele’s appearance to Tuesday.

But the CBN governor failed to show up again, forcing Gbajabiamila to reveal that the lawmakers would want to know about the official assignment that had lasted two weeks.

Also speaking, the Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu, pointed out that should the CBN governor fail to appear before the House on Thursday, when the lawmakers have scheduled to go on Christmas and New Year break, their resolution on suspension of the policy still stands.