I’m not funding Boko Haram – Sanusi

The suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, in Lagos denied allegations that he was a major financier of Boko Haram.

Sanusi insisted that the federal government had failed to substantiate the allegation of terrorism financing leveled against him.
Speaking, through his lawyer, Kola Awodein, at the resumed hearing of his fundamental human rights enforcement suit before the Federal High Court in Lagos, Sanusi stressed that the federal government had not produced any evidence before the court to back up its claim.

Meanwhile, the trial Judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, has reserved ruling in the matter till April 3, 2014.
Sanusi had filed the suit against the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Bello Adoke; Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, and the Department of State Security (DSS) seeking perpetual injunction restraining security agencies from arresting him without following due process in respect of the allegations against him.

He filed the suit a day after President Goodluck Jonathan suspended him from office.
He had predicated the suit on his arrest and detention for about one hour at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja by DSS operatives upon arrival from Niger Republic shortly after his removal was announced.
His passport was also impounded and had since been with the DSS.