. Mr Emefiele, currently suspended as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), denied the charges and was granted bail. He was not charged with any economic crimes. Then in dramatic scenes outside the court, secret police officers beat up prison officials who were preparing to take the banker into custody until his bail was settled. The DSS managed to whisk away the 61-year-old bank boss - who again finds himself under arrest. He was suspended not long after Bola Tinubu used the address at his May inauguration as president to criticise a key policy spearheaded by Mr Emefiele - the unsuccessful attempt to redesign the currency, the naira. It had been an apparent attempt to prevent vote-buying during February's tightly contested presidential election won by Mr Tinubu, the ruling party candidate and a Lagos billionaire. Mr Emefiele looked a shadow of the man that controlled the finances of Nigeria - Africa's largest economy - when he arrived at court in Lagos. He clutched a huge red Bible in one arm and was dragged by the other arm into the courtroom by the court registrar. Inside, he was placed in a dock wedged between a scrum of lawyers and a shelf stacked with thousands of court files that had been left to gather dust. Even before his arrest - in the months between Mr Tinubu's election victory and inauguration - it was clear the bank governor was in trouble. He cut a beleaguered figure with slumped shoulders, desperately pleading his case each time he was seen at the presidential villa during the handover period. But the charges of){kind=link}
Nigeria’s once-powerful central bank chief has been charged with illegally owning a shotgun and hundreds of cartridges, marking a spectacular fall for a man who has long been at the centre of the nation’s politics and finances.
Godwin Emefiele appeared in court on Tuesday, six weeks after he was arrested by the country’s feared secret police, officially known as the Department of State Services (DSS).
Mr Emefiele, currently suspended as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), denied the charges and was granted bail. He was not charged with any economic crimes.
Then in dramatic scenes outside the court, secret police officers beat up prison officials who were preparing to take the banker into custody until his bail was settled.
The DSS managed to whisk away the 61-year-old bank boss – who again finds himself under arrest.