The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has said that the administration of President Bola Tinubu does not know the charges to file against a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.
He spoke at a thanksgiving service by Senator Barinada Mpigi in Koroma, Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Akpabio said Emefiele committed several infractions that it has become difficult knowing the charges to put up against him.
He said: “So, the kind of debt and economic mess that we are in, a lot of people will not understand, but I remember (former) President (Barack) Obama saying that you cannot know Washington until you get to Washington.
“So, by the time we went in to look at the economic situation of the country, it was terrible.
“You know that the former governor of the central bank, we did not even know what to charge him with.
“Whether to charge him for putting foam on top of the bill (Naira) or to charge him for illegal possession of firearm or to charge him for printing notes without income.
“I don’t know what we are going to charge him with.
“But what we can is that yes there is hunger today because of the policies and actions that they took, and we recognise that, and I think every political party should recognise that there is hunger, and we are battling to ensure that Nigerians sleep with their eyes closed.
“Yes, there is insecurity.
“We are battling to ensure that Nigerians can take three square meals a day.
“But be rest assured that we campaigned for this job, we campaigned around the country, we will not let you down, we will get to the bottom of it, all we need is your patience.
“The rots that have happened in Nigeria for so many years, for almost 60 years, cannot be solved in six months.”
