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DSS Arrests Masanawa, NIRSAL MD For Conspiring With Emefiele To Loot Security Printing Coy

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August 18, 2023
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DSS Arrests Masanawa, NIRSAL MD For Conspiring With Emefiele To Loot Security Printing Coy
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The Chief Executive officer of Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending ( NIRSAL), Abbas Umar Masanawa, has been arrested by the Department of State Security (DSS) for conspiring with the suspended CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele to loot the Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Corporation.

Sources said Masanawa was taken into custody three weeks ago and has remained there while investigation continued.

It was not immediately clear whether or not he has hired lawyers to represent him in the case.

A spokesman for NIRSAL did not immediately return a request for comments.

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Masanawa’s arrest stemmed from his role as the managing director of Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC).

He resigned from NSPMC after Peoples Gazette reported that he was seeking a governorship election as a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress while still in office as the nation’s printing and minting boss.

The NSPMC is a subsidiary of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) responsible for printing and minting the nation’s currency notes, coins and high-level security documents.

“He was conspiring with Godwin Emefiele to loot the printing and minting agency,” a source familiar with the arrest said.

“We are still tracing billions they stole.”

It was not immediately clear why President Bola Tinubu approved the detention of Mr Masanawa without first suspending him from office, especially since his detention for the past three weeks has crippled NIRSAL’s ability to operate.

A presidential spokesman declined comments. Mr Emefiele was fired as CBN governor on June 9 and was arrested the next day by the SSS, which has kept him in custody ever since, in defiance of federal court orders.

A spokesperson for the SSS declined to speak on Mr Masanawa’s detention, which stood at 22 days as of Friday morning.

“No comment,” Peter Afunaya said in a message to The Gazette Friday morning.

Masanawa’s arrest came Mr Tinubu appointed an anti-graft expert, Jim Obazee, to uncover fraud at the CBN and other federal agencies.

The Obazee-led team is said to have initiated a probe into all relevant agencies that are said to have connived with the CBN and its sprawling parastatals.

A former deputy general manager at Zenith Bank, Masanawa served as special adviser to Mr Emefiele and steadily moved up the rung to become the executive director at the NSPMC.

Former President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him as the organisation’s managing director in September 2018.

In May 2022, Mr Mansanawa declared his intention to contest the governorship election in Katsina without stepping down from office.

He promptly resigned from his position following The Gazette’s story on his misconduct.

After he failed to clinch the ticket, Mr Emefiele appointed him as the new head of NIRSAL, following the removal of the agency’s former boss Aliyu Abdulhameed amid corruption allegations. Mr Abdulhameed denied wrongdoing. (vitalnewsngr.com)

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