But for how long Mr Emefiele could remain in hiding or avoid stepping into Nigeria while running the central bank would ultimately rest with the president to decide.
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Nigeria's secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS), has commenced a be-on-the-lookout exercise for the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, as it has deployed its operatives and ordered them to arrest him on sight. Two DSS officials familiar with Emefiele’s matter have confirmed that the domestic intelligence office of the DSS had deployed several officers to monitor the CBN Headquarters, Emefiele’s family residence in Lagos and the Abuja home of businessman Christopher Emefiele, unrelated by blood, according to People’s Gazette.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, returned to Nigeria on Wednesday from the United States and is presently in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, but has kept himself away from public glare, SaharaReporters has learnt. Emefiele who was part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s entourage to the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington DC had earlier been reported to be contemplating returning to Nigeria amid a plot by the Department of State Services (DSS) to pick him up for interrogation.