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Labaran Maku, Nigeria's Minister of Information and National Orientation, has described the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as a voodoo statistician.
According to DAILY INDEPENDENT, Maku accused Sanusi of releasing voodoo statistics result following his (Sanusi's) pattern of changing the figures of the alleged unremitted oil fund by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Maku said, "Sanusi is not a whistle blower, but governor of Central Bank of Nigeria. That perception is fed by negative reports from the media".
Maku faulted Sanusi foropening his mouth wide to make damaging statements that could scare investors from coming to invest in the country, or make those who had invested to consider withdrawing their investments.
"CBN is he nerve centre of the nation’s financial system. If there are problems with it, it means that it can generate a lot of problems in the banking system and the economy and so the president has been trying to sort this out and between him and the CBN governor there have been communications since April 2013", Maku said referring to the CBN report of 2012 that is at the center of the controversy.
"Unfortunately, the CBN governor is also the chairman of the board and he cannot sit in a matter he is being investigated for. So, what the president has done, as the appointing officer of the CBN, was to ask the governor to step aside pending the outcome of the investigating. He has not been removed. Are we saying that the queries that were raised relating to the CBN account were false? In the end if he is fund not guilty, he still has his tenure to run.
"As for the NNPC, don’t forget that a forensic audit of the NNPC has been ordered. Remember, Sanusi said $49.8 billion was missing. How much do we earn?. That means there was a free fall. But, the story changed to $20 billion, $10.8 billion so nobody knows"
"It is a voodoo statistics that are coming from the CBN governor, because if you want to say something relating to the economy as CBN governor, his opinions are seen to be sacrosanct in any country.You don’t say something without verifying it. No CBN governor makes statement on his nation’s economy without verifying", Maku said, adding that the CBN governor's role is supposed to be a silent one as his utterances can break the economy.
According to DAILY INDEPENDENT, Maku accused Sanusi of releasing voodoo statistics result following his (Sanusi's) pattern of changing the figures of the alleged unremitted oil fund by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Maku said, "Sanusi is not a whistle blower, but governor of Central Bank of Nigeria. That perception is fed by negative reports from the media".
Maku faulted Sanusi foropening his mouth wide to make damaging statements that could scare investors from coming to invest in the country, or make those who had invested to consider withdrawing their investments.
"CBN is he nerve centre of the nation’s financial system. If there are problems with it, it means that it can generate a lot of problems in the banking system and the economy and so the president has been trying to sort this out and between him and the CBN governor there have been communications since April 2013", Maku said referring to the CBN report of 2012 that is at the center of the controversy.
"Unfortunately, the CBN governor is also the chairman of the board and he cannot sit in a matter he is being investigated for. So, what the president has done, as the appointing officer of the CBN, was to ask the governor to step aside pending the outcome of the investigating. He has not been removed. Are we saying that the queries that were raised relating to the CBN account were false? In the end if he is fund not guilty, he still has his tenure to run.
"As for the NNPC, don’t forget that a forensic audit of the NNPC has been ordered. Remember, Sanusi said $49.8 billion was missing. How much do we earn?. That means there was a free fall. But, the story changed to $20 billion, $10.8 billion so nobody knows"
"It is a voodoo statistics that are coming from the CBN governor, because if you want to say something relating to the economy as CBN governor, his opinions are seen to be sacrosanct in any country.You don’t say something without verifying it. No CBN governor makes statement on his nation’s economy without verifying", Maku said, adding that the CBN governor's role is supposed to be a silent one as his utterances can break the economy.