Naira redesign: We won’t be your scapegoat, supreme court tells FG, states
The supreme court says it would not allow the federal government and states to use the judiciary as a scapegoat in the legal dispute regarding the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). A seven-member panel of the court headed by Inyang Okoro said this on Wednesday while consolidating various suits filed by different states seeking to stop the full implementation of the naira redesign policy.
The supreme court says it would not allow the federal government and states to use the judiciary as a scapegoat in the legal dispute regarding the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
A seven-member panel of the court headed by Inyang Okoro said this on Wednesday while consolidating various suits filed by different states seeking to stop the full implementation of the naira redesign policy.
“We want to make it very clear that we are going to hear this matter today because we don’t want a situation where the judiciary will be made a scapegoat,” Okoro said.
“With the way this matter is going, they are looking for a scapegoat and we refuse to be that scapegoat.
SOURCE- THE CABLES
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