Former President Buhari’s Powerful Nephew, Mamman Daura Falls Ill After News Of Godwin Emefiele’s Arrest
Mamman Daura, the “effective” nephew of former President, Muhammadu Buhari, has taken unwell after information of the arrest of the suspended Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, via way of means of the Department of State Services (DSS) was given to him, PRISTINEGIST has learnt.
PRISTINEGIST amassed that Daura’s surprising infection is probably associated with how he had included Emefiele from prosecution for numerous years due to commercial enterprise dealings concerning the income of foreign exchange in large part managed with the aid of using him (Daura) – one of the motives he turned into labelled as Buhari’s effective nephew.
The DSS had on Saturday shown that it arrested Godwin Emefiele, the suspended CBN governor for “investigative motives.”
“EMEFIELE, NOW IN DSS CUSTODY – The Department of State Services (DSS) hereby confirms that Mr Godwin Emefiele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is now in its custody for a few investigative motives,” Peter Afunanya, the DSS Public Relations Officer, had stated.
We had learnt from pinnacle reasserts that the DSS has flown Emefiele from Lagos to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, after his arrest on Friday evening.
PRISTINEGIST in addition accumulated that the embattled CBN governor turned into fleeing Nigeria via the land border in Lagos whilst he turned into arrested through the DSS.
“Emefiele has been flown from Lagos to Abuja after the DSS arrested him. He changed into fleeing thru the land border whilst he became arrested. He turned into arrested closing night time in Lagos,” an authoritative supply discovered.
On Tuesday, pinnacle reasserts found out to PRISTINEGIST that Daura had taken sick on account that Friday while the information of Emefiele’s arrest was given to his house in Kaduna State.
“Daura has taken unwell after the Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele became arrested through Nigeria’s mystery police, DSS final Friday.
He is one of the cabals who blanketed the Central Bank Governor, protecting him from prosecution for numerous years due to enterprise dealings concerning the income of foreign exchange that is essentially managed with the aid of using him,” one of the assets found out.
We bear in mind that Mamman Daura’s impact on had waned through the years after he became pressured out of the Presidential Villa first because of a chief fallout between him and the then First Lady, Aisha Buhari which brought about his ouster from the “Defence House” wherein he held sway.
Daura had later spent a while withinside the UK struggling with an undisclosed ailment with were given him limited to his Kaduna domestic for years. We had final week said that Emefiele’s arrest got here the identical day the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, suspended him from the workplace with an instant effect.
We had in February suggested how the DSS tried to arrest Emefiele, however, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor, shielded him by offering infantrymen to defend his house and workplace.
The DSS had stated it intensified its investigations to arrest and prosecute Emefiele, on allegations of terrorism financing and fraud.
We had additionally in February said that new courtroom docket files received from the DSS indicted Emefiele for investing “unknown gunmen” terrorising the Southeast area of the country.
DSS research found out that the apex financial institution governor funded the businesses with assets he raised for his failed presidential bid in 2022 and diverted public finances.
It brought that the price range and the automobiles Emefiele had deliberately applied for his presidential marketing campaign have been channelled into the investment of “‘Unknown Gunmen’, ESN and factors of IPOB, a proscribed organisation.”
According to the name of the game police, Emefiele “on numerous activities in moves prejudicial to the safety of the Nigerian state,” engaged in “crook conspiracy to divert authorities sources into suspicious acts of terrorism financing”.
It stated the movements of the CBN governor have been “intended to subvert and sabotage” the previous President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Top authorities reassert shared with PRISTINEGIST how the research related Emefiele to a famous terror financier, whom the apex financial institution governor had despatched budget for onward switch to debatable Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi.
Gumi is understood for hobnobbing with terrorists and bandits and advocating that amnesty must be granted to them.
In 2022, one of Gumi’s associates, Tukur Mamu, become arrested and detained via way of means of Interpol at Cairo International Airport in Egypt whilst waiting for a connecting flight to Saudi Arabia.
Upon his go back to Nigeria, he become arrested with the aid of using the DSS over allegations that he turned into heading to Saudi Arabia to satisfy a few worldwide terrorists.
Meanwhile, the name of the game police stated their initial research found numerous acts of terrorism financing, fraudulent sports perpetrated with the aid of using Emefiele and his involvement in financial crimes of country-wide protection size along with mismanaging the CBN subsidiary, NISRAL, and the significant financial institution’s Anchor Borrowers Programme.
The mystery police additionally accused Emefiele of “fraud, cash laundering, spherical tripping and conferment of economic advantage to self and others.”
