Massive protest, Wednesday rocked Abuja over an alleged plot by politicians to scuttle the recently introduced monetary policies by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The protesters numbering about 5000 also frowned at the motion brought before a Federal High Court in Abuja by men of the Department of State Service (DSS) where-in they sought relief to arrest and detain the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele based on trump charges of financing terrorism, economic crime and crime of national security.

They displayed placards with inscriptions: ‘Plans to disrupt cashless policy will be resisted’, ‘The plan to remove Emefiele is the work of politicians’, and ‘Politicians focus on your elections and leave Emefiele alone’.

They regretted that the motion was surprisingly done without concrete evidence to prove the frivolous allegations against the CBN Governor, maintaining that the country can not forget easily the transformed economic and monetary policies of the governor approved by President Buhari for implementation.

Speaking on behalf of the protesters, Coalition of Civil Society Group President, Bassey Etuk Williams said the trumped-up charges are a product of unfounded petition generated by unscrupulous politicians whose fraudulent activities have been caught short by the wonderful and brilliant policies of the central bank governor.

According to Williams, the action taken against Emefiele is an affront to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and implores Presidency to get to the root of the move aimed to further ridicule and bring to disrepute the office of the President.

He said: “We are surprised to note the division that exists among top government officials of this regime.

“While the CBN Governor was in faraway US on the entourage of President Buhari, another arm is seeking his arrest back home on trump-up charges without the consent of the President.

“The questions that beg for an answer is, who gave such a directive, is Mr President aware of this allegation before moving in to effect arrest via a court order? On whose interest is the DSS really working.

“The Civil society movement has great respect for the DG sss who we know as a fine gentleman but we feel that the trumped up charges are a product of unfounded petition generated by unscrupulous politicians whose fraudulent activities have been caught short by the wonderful and brilliant policies of central bank governor.

“We wonder why they left their main mandate and allowed the troubled political class to influence their professional ethics.

“The coalition is surprised by the high level of a plot to frame the CBN Governor at this time. There has been a coordinated attempt to rubbish him, as we all note that this started via one Hon. Kazaure when he went about screaming about missing N89 trillion-naira stamp duty money traceable to the same man, even though the Presidency has come out to disown the said committee the political class never rest as they moved again using the men of DSS.

“We are shocked that this can happen even while he was away with President Buhari. The question is why then did they allow someone allegedly financing terrorism to be on the delegation of Mr President.

“The CBN Governor has served diligently for seven years and the DSS throughout this period didn’t discover this until the recently introduced monetary policy, a policy that majorly affects most of our political class.

“This is an affront on the government of President Buhari and we implore Presidency to get to the root of the move aimed to further ridicule and bring to disrepute the office of the President.

“When you fight corruption, definitely it will fight back as we can see over this period how Godwin Emefiele has been in the eye of the storm for trying to further salvage our economy and standardized our naira notes via the introduction of new notes dully approved for President Buhari.

“We call on the naysayers to allow him to concentrate on his job and demand that all these trump-up charges should be dropped against him in moving the nation forward.

“Despite these allegations, he was still cleared to travel with Mr President, this further shows the secret plot to want to indict him to remove him from the office which informs why they approached court without the knowledge of the President. This flip-flop in government activities must stop now.

“We as a group, hereby reiterate our unalloyed support for President Muhammadu Buhari and CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele while urging the CBN governor to further the implementation of his policies aimed at further combating inflation.

“While we warn the distractors and naysayers to allow him to deliver on his mandate, The era of cash stuffing at home has gone and won’t come back again.

“We won’t be deterred to take further actions if this blackmail to remove him from the office do not stop Now.”