Following a dispute with officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), DSS agents re-arrested suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.
Emefiele was re-arrested on Tuesday in a Federal High Court in Lagos sitting in Ikoyi. Justice Nicholas Oweibo granted bail to the controversial and suspended CBN Governor in the sum of N20 million.
The judge further ordered that the apex bank president be held at the detention facility until the bail requirements were met.
Shortly after the decision, the secret police deliberately positioned the Hilux Pick Up vehicle used to transport Emefiele to court, implying that they intended to return him to their prison center.
This prompted Emefiele’s lead counsel, Joseph Daudu, (SAN), and other lawyers to raise an alarm about their client’s planned re-arrest by the DSS.
When the prison officials moved to take the former apex bank chief into custody pending the fulfillment of his bail conditions, the secret police challenged them and it led to a clash.
Amid the clash, Emefiele’s lawyers said he “reluctantly allowed the DSS disobey court order and take custody of their client” to avoid a gun battle.
Following this, the prison officials exited the court in their vehicle and the DSS took charge. At exactly 03:03pm, operatives of the DSS led the suspended CBN governor out of the courtroom into their waiting vehicle.
