Former Governor of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has known as for a correct audit of the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted (NNPCL), noting that this name was what price him his job on the apex financial institution.
Sanusi made this identified whereas delivering his remarks at The Financial institution Administrators Summit holding on the Congress Corridor of the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja.
Sanusi, who was CBN governor from June 2009 to February 2014, insisted that the President shouldn’t be the Minister of Petroleum.
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For the ex-CBN chief, the Asset Administration Company of Nigeria (AMCON) and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance coverage Company (NDIC) should stay till banks get collectively and pay up what they owe the system.
He additionally maintained that the banking sector should shore up its belief deficit within the eyes of the general public and that there isn’t a must amend the CBN Act to maintain the apex financial institution freed from political influences.
In August, about three months after his inauguration, President Bola Tinubu cut up the Ministry of Petroleum Assets with the appointment of Ekperipe Ekpo as Minister of State, Gasoline Assets; and Heineken Lokpobiri as Minister of State, Petroleum Assets.
Nonetheless, Tinubu, in an obvious custom of his predecessor, ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, stored the place of the substantive Minister of Petroleum Assets to himself.