Godwin Emefiele has been slammed with two counts of illegal possession of a firearm, as the Tinubu administration continues to find ways to nail the former central bank chief after multiple courts found him unanswerable to previously filed charges of terrorism and corruption.

Federal authorities said they found an unlicensed shotgun that operates on a magnum cartridge, apparently the 44 calibre variety, according to court filings in Lagos. The charges, which said Mr Emefiele also had 123 bullets in his possession for the unlicensed firearm, were brought by the State Security Service, the same repressive national intelligence agency that successive Nigerian administrations have weaponised against political adversaries and everyday citizens.

The charges said the weapons were recovered from Mr Emefiele’s home in Ikoyi, on June 15, 2023, even though Mr Emefiele was arrested on June 9, 2023, and has been locked up in Abuja ever since. A spokesman for the SSS did not immediately return a request seeking comments about the discrepancy between the date Mr Emefiele was arrested and how arms were found in his possession a week later in Lagos.


While serving as the central bank governor, Mr Emefiele sought unsuccessfully to rescue the ruling All Progressives Congress’ presidential ticket from Bola Tinubu. Mr Tinubu, who was declared winner of the controversial 2023 presidential election in February, immediately fired Mr Emefiele upon his assumption of presidential duties in May and kept him in illegal custody.

Several courts have ruled for Mr Emefiele to be freed on the account that his arrest and continued incarceration were baseless and extra-constitutional. The rulings followed calls for Mr Emefiele’s release from rights activists, who said his detention was untidy even as they acknowledged his alleged corruption and recklessness while in office.

In an information sheet dated July 13, 2023, the SSS said Mr Emefiele’s possession of a firearm and bullets in contravention of the 2004 Firearms Act — a criminal statute that carries a jail sentence.

The charges against Mr Emefiele came as the SSS continued to ignore Ibikunle Amosun, a former governor of Ogun who was exposed for illegally stockpiling firearms and ammunition during his rein as the governor of Ogun state.

Mr Amosun, who served a two-term of eight years as Ogun governor, was caught with 1,000 AK-47 rifles and four million rounds of live ammunition during a period of rampant armed banditry, abductions and political assassinations.

A spokesman for the SSS did not return a request seeking comments about when Mr Amosun would be charged, four years after he left office as governor and lost his constitutional immunity from prosecution. Mr Amosun, a member of the APC, stepped down for Mr Tinubu at the ruling party’s national convention in June 2022.

Penguin2:
Every Nigerian would remember how the DSS clandestinely sought to obtain a black market court order to arrest Mr Godwin Emefiele in the middle of the election and at the heat of Naira Redesign Policy; accusing him of corruption and terrorism financing including the financing of IPOB and diverting the vehicles that were previously acquired for his presidential ambition to Unknown Gun Men in the Southeast.

It was therefore near hilarious to find out that at long last the secret police could only charge Emefiele for one Handgun and about 123 live ammunitions.

One now wonders what happened to the corruption accusations and the claim of terrorism financing?

Why was Emefiele accused of sponsoring IPOB only for it to not make it into part of his charges?

Could it be that the DSS lied? If yes, who knows how many other lies has been told with the name of IPOB?

And if it’s a crime for Emefiele to possess a supposedly unlicensed handgun, why has a character like Asari Dokubo who openly brandish different sorts of assault rifles in public not been arrested and charged as well?

Now below is a report of the former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, who was found with 1000 AK-47 rifles and has not been charged.

Is there a selective administration of justice depending on where one comes from in Nigeria?

https://gazettengr.com/after-ignoring-amosuns-1000-ak-47-rifles-four-million-bullets-sss-charges-emefiele-over-one-handgun-found-in-lagos-home/

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helinues:
Op, stop wailing unnecessarily

Not a fan of Amosun but he voluntarily gave those ammunitions to the security officers, though the intention of possessing them was just wrong

Penguin2:
Every Nigerian would remember how the DSS clandestinely sought to obtain a black market court order to arrest Mr Godwin Emefiele in the middle of the election and at the heat of Naira Redesign Policy; accusing him of corruption and terrorism financing including the financing of IPOB and diverting the vehicles that were previously acquired for his presidential ambition to Unknown Gun Men in the Southeast.[/b]You can kill yourself since you can't do anything about it...

[b]It was therefore near hilarious to find out that at long last the secret police could only charge Emefiele for one Handgun and about 123 live ammunitions.

One now wonders what happened to the corruption accusations and the claim of terrorism financing?

Why was Emefiele accused of sponsoring IPOB only for it to not make it into part of his charges?

Could it be that the DSS lied? If yes, who knows how many other lies has been told with the name of IPOB?

And if it’s a crime for Emefiele to possess a supposedly unlicensed handgun, why has a character like Asari Dokubo who openly brandish different sorts of assault rifles in public not been arrested and charged as well?

Now below is a report of the former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, who was found with 1000 AK-47 rifles and has not been charged.

Is there a selective administration of justice depending on where one comes from in Nigeria?

https://gazettengr.com/after-ignoring-amosuns-1000-ak-47-rifles-four-million-bullets-sss-charges-emefiele-over-one-handgun-found-in-lagos-home/

Nlfpmod
Mynd44

Penguin2:
Every Nigerian would remember how the DSS clandestinely sought to obtain a black market court order to arrest Mr Godwin Emefiele in the middle of the election and at the heat of Naira Redesign Policy; accusing him of corruption and terrorism financing including the financing of IPOB and diverting the vehicles that were previously acquired for his presidential ambition to Unknown Gun Men in the Southeast.

It was therefore near hilarious to find out that at long last the secret police could only charge Emefiele for one Handgun and about 123 live ammunitions.

One now wonders what happened to the corruption accusations and the claim of terrorism financing?

Why was Emefiele accused of sponsoring IPOB only for it to not make it into part of his charges?

Could it be that the DSS lied? If yes, who knows how many other lies has been told with the name of IPOB?

And if it’s a crime for Emefiele to possess a supposedly unlicensed handgun, why has a character like Asari Dokubo who openly brandish different sorts of assault rifles in public not been arrested and charged as well?

Now below is a report of the former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, who was found with 1000 AK-47 rifles and has not been charged.

Is there a selective administration of justice depending on where one comes from in Nigeria?

https://gazettengr.com/after-ignoring-amosuns-1000-ak-47-rifles-four-million-bullets-sss-charges-emefiele-over-one-handgun-found-in-lagos-home/

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Mynd44

helinues:
Op, stop wailing unnecessarily

Not a fan of Amosun but he voluntarily gave those ammunitions to the security officers, though the intention of possessing them was just wrong

Penguin2:

Can you listen to yourself?

He “voluntarily gave those ammunitions to security officers.”

Now, does that exonerate him for possessing them without license in the first place? Has he stated how he acquired them? Where is you people’s sense of objectivity? Or do you see everything from the prism of tribalism?

Meanwhile, have you now accepted that they used you people’s head by telling you that Emefiele was sponsoring IPOB only for it not to be mentioned in his charge sheet?

When we were telling you people, you called us terrorist sympathizers. But I’m sure it’s obvious to you, and your ilk, that we are a group of people that like to use our heads and not believe every shit as if we were zombies.

You people should learn to think for yourself and stop taking orders from WhatsApp groups.

Same way Emefiele’s IPOB links accusations has been proven to be maliciously concocted lies, same way the world will come to know, in no distant time, that the tag of Obi supporters as IPOB has been all malicious lies from the beginning.

We will have the last laugh.

Bookmark it!

pedel:
Where is the rest of the charge sheet?
Was he charged with only the firearm related offences?
Nigerians are the most unreasonable people. The DSS are not transparent, and the people supporting Emiefiele are not interested in true justice.

AuschwitzPrefec:


They are perfecting their case against him before going to court.

The least accusation is being used to justify his continued incarceration .


This is how LEAs the world over function.

helinues:
Op, stop wailing unnecessarily

Not a fan of Amosun but he voluntarily gave those ammunitions to the security officers, though the intention of possessing them was just wrong

OloYeOfEgbE:


Trash from a loonatic ...Same way tilumbu voluntarily gave 460.000Dollars to FBI though his intention of acquiring them was just wrong.

Slaves oooo

helinues:


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Khd95:
There is no way emefiele will go down without buhari, his principal going down too that’s why they brought this charge again him

All these na sakamanje, if tilinbu is serious he will start with ganduje, the dollar stuffing baba rings wearer , elrufai that paid bandits 50millions years back not to attack communities

Emefiele will be left alone except they want to implicate buhari the chief terror sympathizer and financier

Or have we forgotten how military hardware dramatically end up in the hands of boko haram they later used to annihilate the NA

Or how granted amnesty to the very people that have killed thousands of Nigerians, displaced millions of them and destroyed properties worth billions of naira, Dey play