Governor Babatunde Fashola
Governor
Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Thursday faulted the suspension of
the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, saying
the action by the Federal Government might have adverse effects on the
economy.
Fashola, who spoke after the
inauguration of the Lagos Asphalt Plant at Imota in the Ikorodu area of
the state, also observed that the suspension was a “tactical sacking”.
He said since President Goodluck
Jonathan lacked the legal power to sack the CBN governor unilaterally,
he labelled it a suspension.
Fashola said the Federal Government’s
decision to suspend a man who had made serious allegations of financial
impropriety against government and its agencies was an indication of the
insensitivity of government to the harm that corruption was doing to
the nation’s economy.
He said, “I don’t understand this kind
of economic management. Executive tampering with the independence of the
Central Bank has economic consequences for investors. If the man is
going in June, perhaps it might have been tactful to let this thing just
slide away.
“This is not a suspension, it is a
sacking really. It is because there is no power to sack him and they
have looked and now said, ‘We suspend.’ It is a sacking really. The
message you are sending out is that it is better to keep quiet about
corruption. That’s what it seems to me.”
On the importance of the Asphalt plant,
Fashola said 66 roads had been slated to benefit from it. He added that
the plant was sited at Imota to bring development closer to the people
at the grassroots level.
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