Court Restricts SSS and Other Agencies From Arresting Sanusi Lamido

A Federal High Court sitting in  Lagos on Friday granted an order restraining the State Security Services and the Inspector General of Police, Mallam Mohammed Abubakar, and all the agencies of the Federal Government from arresting the suspended governor of  the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi.

Justice Ibrahim Buba granted the order in chamber after hearing Sanusi's ex parte application shortly after it was duly filed on Friday.
The order is to subsist pending the hearing of the suit. The court adjourned till February 28, before which time parties in the suit were expected to have been served.
The court order came as the suspended CBN governor accused  President Goodluck Jonathan administration of shielding corrupt government officials.


Represented by the former Attorney-General of Lagos State, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN),  and Kola Awodein (SAN),  Sanusi, clad in a jalamiaand a red cap, appeared at the Lagos court for about 20 minutes on Friday.

The Presidency had on Thursday hinged the suspension of the apex bank governor, who is due for retirement in June, on his financial recklessness in office.