“You need to see... What DSS Discovered in Emefele house (sic),” reads a tweet published with a video on June 14, 2023.
Retweeted more than 2,800 times, the 27-second clip shows two men arranging bundles of cash on tables. Igbo words “Afu Nwa Chidi” (meaning “Chidi’s child” — Chidi is a common name in southeastern Nigeria) appear on the bottom left of the footage.
Simon Ekpa, a disputed leader of the Nigerian separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), shared the same video with a similar claim.
“So Emefele has this type of cash in his house and we are looking for sponsors (sic),” he tweeted on June 15, 2023. Ekpa has been the subject of several debunks (here and here) by AFP Fact Check.
Accounts on Facebook also shared similar claims.
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu suspended Emefiele from his role as the governor of the country’s central bank on June 9, 2023, as part of an “ongoing investigation of his office and the planned reforms in the financial sector” (archived here). He was arrested soon after (archived here).
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