"You committed a crime against Nigerians": Wole Soyinka blasts Buhari, Emefiele over naira swap policy

  • Wole Soyinka has said the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, worked with President Muhammadu Buhari to make Nigerians suffer
  • The veteran writer accused Emefiele of committing a crime against humanity with the CBN’s naira swap policy
  • According to Soyinka, accessing funds became so difficult to the extent that people, despite having money, couldn’t buy things they needed due to lack of naira

Literary icon and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has accused the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of committing crimes against humanity with the institution’s controversial naira swap policy.

Speaking on Channels Television, Soyinka said the CBN’s naira swap policy, introduced a few months before the general elections, was criminal.