Department of State Services (DSS) has released the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in charge of Economic Policy, Kingsley Obiora, from its custody.
Obiora was arrested by the DSS on Wednesday as part of clampdown on senior officials of the apex bank, which began with the suspended Governor, Godwin Emefiele.
The others are Sa’adatu Ramalan Yero and the recently sacked NIRSAL CEO, Abbas Masanawa.
Daily Trust reported a source within the CBN to have alleged that the Special Investigations Panel set up by President Bola Tinubu to investigate the tenure of Emefiele might have been instrumental to the invitation Obiora received from the DSS.
The report said they planned to use him as a witness against Emefiele.
The newspaper reported that the Jim Obazee-led special panel had been questioning the deputy governors of the CBN, as well as other senior officials of the bank, as part of an ongoing audit.
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