While it was awash in the media and also in the social networks hours ago that former CBN Governor, Charles Soludo was arrested this afternoon, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over an alleged connection in the Australian polymer banknotes bribery scam – A close family source has come out to debunk the storyย –ย โTo the best of my knowledge Soludo was not arrested, I also spoke with him about an hour ago.โ – said a relative of the former Central Bank Governor. ย
Informed observers of the Abuja political sphere point toย a pre-existingย politically laced disparity between the Jonathan led administration and the former Centralย Bank Governor –ย as cause for the false alarm raised byย theย use of media to spread of false andย image-tarnishing rumors of arrest of Prof Chukwuma C. Soludo. They view the newsbreak of Soludo’s arrest with suspicion.
Worth noting is – on occasions,ย Soludo hasย authored hard hitting analysis of theย Nigerian socio-economic decayย – some where publishedย in theย ThisDay Newspapers.ย ย ย
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All efforts to contact Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC spokesperson proved abortive as his phone was switched off.
