By AMOS TAUNA, Kaduna
The Unified Northern Nigeria Youths Forum (UNNYF), has expressed concerns with the utterances of a member, House of Representatives, Gudaji Kazaure, for inciting Nigerians against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele, alleging that he could not account for N89.1 trillion stamp duty collected by the CBN from banks and other financial institutions and not remitted to the central account.
Aliyu Sanni Mohammed, Publicity Secretary of the group in a statement on Tuesday in Kaduna said, “We are also calling for the arrest of Gudaji Kazaure for insiting Nigerians against the CBN Governor, he should be sued and charged to court for spreading lies. deformation of character and person of the CBN Governor Dr Godwin Emefiele.”
The Publicity Secretary of the youth debunked that rumour as it’s a falsified story that is absolutely fake, saying that the CBN governor is doing his best by taking Nigeria’s economy in the right direction.
The youth called on the EFCC to be more watchful, tactical, investigate and arrest where necessary the likes of Gudaji Kazaure, alleging that they might have stolen public funds and are looking for a way to hide it, keeping Nigeria stagnant without any development.
The statement explained that the alleged committee the member is talking about, which he claims to be it’s secretary, it is illegal and stands dissolved on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari as rightly stated by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, saying that the only committee that was ever formed and still exist is the committee Chaired by Attorney General and Minister of Justice with the Chairman of the Federal Internal Revenue Service (FIRS), as it’s Secretary.
The statement alleged, “Nigerians should understand that Gudaji Kazaure is a joke, who has no valuable contributions to the people of his constituency, his state, or Nigeria at large. He is an un-serious person, if not how can he be making allegations of such an outrageous amount of money that is practically not available. The truth is that, he has stood so low and shameless to be sponsored by some unpatriotic vultures, who are not happy with the recent policies of the CBN to come publicly and spread concocted lies, targeted at tarnishing the image, good name and reputation of the CBN Governor for petty personal gains of his, putting him self before national interest.”
The youth noted that since the CBN announced its intention to redesign some denominations of the Naira note, enemies of democracy and Nigeria’s progress have come out to attack it’s Governor, Dr Emefiele, adding that the CBN announced it’s policy on limiting withdrawals rate, this has also pushed these set of unpatriotic, overzealous and corrupt individuals to fight dirty with every weapon they have to stop the CBN Governor from emancipating Nigerian masses from the shackles of bondage put upon them by these wicked individuals.
It explained that the CBN Governor has lucidly explained that one of the reasons for redesigning some denominations of the naira note is to systematically recollect the over 2.7 out of 3.1 trillion naira that lies outside the banking hall, hidden and illegally been used for ungodly acts in the hands certain persons.
The statement further explained that the reason for the withdrawal restriction policy is to clamp down on terrorism, saying that terrorism can only fare where there are unchecked flow of huge amount of cash and also restrict unnecessary cash flow that is only favorable for corrupt acts such as vote buying, election mal-practices and siphoning of public funds.
