Breaking: Sanusi Lamido Wins FG In Court Again

*Sanusi

Suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has again won the Federal Government as a Federal High Court in Lagos barred the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, from investigating his tenure as head of Nigeria’s apex bank.

Delivering judgment on Monday, Justice John Tsoho said that although the FRCN is saddled with ensuring good governance in financial matters, their posturing shows that they are already prejudiced.

The judge countered the FRCN’s argument that their recommendation to the presidency was merely advisory. He said it was obvious that they had already decided Mr. Sanusi’s fate, even before their investigation...
“The language of the briefing note (transmitted by the FRCN to the presidency) conveys a sense of the defendant desperately goading the presidency to deal with the plaintiff,” Judge Tsoho said.

“The plaintiff submitting himself for investigation (by FRCN) is like the cockroach finding itself in the midst of fowls. Such a cockroach cannot be innocent,” he added.