Ahmed Umar, former director of Currency Operations, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has said that Godwin Emefiele, the embattled immediate past governor of the apex printed his own design of the naira, ignoring the design approved by Muhammadu Buhari, former president.
Umar disclosed this while giving evidence at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court sitting in Maitama.
The former CBN director said the features in the design approved by Buhari was different from the one Emefiele ordered to be printed.
Umar said, “The design approved by the President had a QR code, which the currency in circulation does not. The positioning of the portrait was on the right side, that printed by the CBN was on the left and the number scheme approved by the President is different from what the CBN produced.”
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), had on May 15, arraigned Emefiele on a four count charge before Justice Maryanne Anenih of the FCT High Court.
Emefiele however denied the charge and was admitted to bail in the sum of N300 million.