Sanusi, Sacked CBN Gov is a Voodoo Statistician-Maku

Mr. Labaran Maku, minister of Information and National Orientation, has said that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, suspended Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor, made himself a whistle blower as well as a voodoo statistician feeding the country with unsubstantiated figures of missing funds.

The minister who stated this while fielding questions from newsmen after defending his ministry’s 2014 budget proposal at the Senate said that Sanusi as the manager of the nation’s monetary policies who advised the president on monetary issues should have not made himself a whistle blower.

Maku said, “But the reality of what has happened is that there are issues with the account of CBN of 2012 as the president explained. The Financial Reporting Council has said that there are issues that should be addressed so the president returned it back to the council and the council again returned it with some of the items with questions.

“CBN is the nerve centre of the nation’s financial system. If there are problems with it, it means that it can generate a lot of problems in the banking system and the economy and so the president has been trying to sort this out and between him and the CBN governor there have been communications since April 2013. So, it has nothing to do what my brother Sanusi has said relating to the NNPC. This has been ongoing conversation between them.

“Unfortunately, the CBN governor is also the chairman of the board and he can’t sit in a matter he is being investigated for, so, what the president has done as the appointing officer of the CBN was to ask the governor to step aside pending the outcome of the investigating.

“He has not been removed and we don ‘t know where the uproar is coming from. Are we saying that the queries that were raised relating to the CBN account were false? In the end if he is found not guilty, he still has his tenure to run.”