Tope Alabi, an activist lawyer based in Lagos, has approached the Federal High Court in Lagos for permission to bring contempt charges against Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), for allegedly disobeying the Supreme Court’s rulings over the CBN’s currency redesign strategy.
Alabi filed the request as an ex parte move in the case on March 27, with Emefiele named as the only respondent.
He called the naira swap a “cash confiscation policy” and claimed it had a negative impact on how his office was run on a daily basis because his staff members were unable to bring physical cash to work. Alabi also claimed that commercial drivers “do not have point of sale (POS) device/machine to collect fares.”
