By Halimah Olamide
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Bayero, has said that the recent relocation of some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) are suspicious.
The monarch stated this during a visit of the First Lady, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu to Kano on Monday.
Speaking in Hausa and then assisted by an interpreter, the Emir said “We are indeed suspicious on why Mr. President single-handedly relocated key departments of CBN, and outright relocation of FAAN to Lagos.
“We are receiving a series of messages from my subjects, and most of them expressed concern over the relocation of CBN and FAAN to Lagos.”
Bayero said he cannot fathom the real intentions of the Tinubu-led government to move those departments to Lagos while the entire FAAN was relocated back to Lagos.
“We should be made to actually understand why the relocation of the CBN and FAAN offices back to Lagos,” the Emir told Mrs. Tinubu NPO Reports that the government had ordered the relocation of the departments saying the Abuja office was congested.
Another reason cited for the relocation that most financial institutions which the CBN regulates are in Lagos saying it does not make for good economics and management to have regulatory officials in Abuja while the organisations they supervise are in Lagos.
In the same vein, Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, had hinted that FAAN spent about N1bn last year on travels by its officials as a result of the location of FAAN in Abuja.