Children Of Politically Exposed Nigerians Will Rather Quit Central Bank Than Leave Their ‘Spoilt Abuja Life’ For Lagos; Get Rid Of Them, Sanusi Tells CBN Gov
The former Kano Emir stated this while defending the relocation of some departments of the apex bank from Abuja to Lagos by the current government of Bola Tinubu.
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has said that that many employees of the apex bank are children of politically exposed Nigerians who would rather resign than relocate from Abuja to Lagos.
The former Kano Emir stated this while defending the relocation of some departments of the apex bank from Abuja to Lagos by the current government of Bola Tinubu.
He advised the apex bank’s present management not to allow any pressure to cause them to reconsider their planned relocation and to be prepared to lay off any personnel who refused to move with them.
Sanusi’s statement reads: “The problem we have now is that many employees are children of politically exposed persons and their Abuja life and businesses are more important than the CBN work.
“The CBN is just an address for them and if they have to choose between their spoilt Abuja life and the job, they would gladly leave the CBN.
“All the more reason for the Governor to put his foot down and get rid of those elements; they are dangerous for the bank’s future.”
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) objected to the relocation, calling it a calculated attack on the North, as previously reported by SaharaReporters.
The forum claims that the CBN’s decision represents a troubling pattern of antagonistic actions frequently taken by certain federal government agencies against the interests of the North and other parts of the country, rather than being a typical administrative action to fix some logistics problem.
The ACF stated that the exercise would have an impact on Northerners.
However, Sanusi, who was 14th Emir of Kano said the relocation was an “eminently sensible move”.
Sahara
