CBN: Emefiele Does Not Use Private Jets

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has refuted reports that its governor, Godwin Emefiele, travelled in a private jet to bury his mother.A statement from the apex bank’s Acting Director of

Communications, Isaac Okoroafor, said: “Mr. Emefiele and his family flew a commercial Arik flight from Lagos to Benin for their mother’s burial.”Okoroafor further explained: “In 2015, in response to
the economic downturn and cost-cutting stance of government, Mr. Emefiele ordered the stoppage of the use of chartered flights by the bank.“Since then, neither Mr. Emefiele nor any of the Deputy Governors has used the services of private chartered flights and the CBN has not paid a kobo for private jet services.”He added the governor and other principal officers of the CBN “have religiously maintained the modest disposition of using regular flights, including doing several trips by road to and from different parts of the country.”Okoroafor said no private jet was used by Emefiele, his immediate family or other principal officers of the bank during the burial of Emefiele’s mother.