The
House of Representatives on Thursday had a rowdy session over the
suspension of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi, by President Goodluck Jonathan, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Debate on the suspension of the CBN
governor started when the Minority Whip of the House, Samson Osagie
(APC-Edo), raised a point of order on the suspension of Sanusi.
According to Osagie, the CBN Act of 2007 as amended does not empower the President or anybody else to suspend the CBN governor.
He said section 11 (7) of the Act only
empowered the President to remove the governor, subject to the approval
of two-third majority of the Senate.
The legislator stressed that the
allegation of financial recklessness reported by the Accounting
Standards Board upon which Sanusi was suspended did not indicate if he
was given fair hearing.