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Emefiele was also accused of using his office as CBN governor to confer unfair and corrupt advantage on two companies. Michael Agboro, a prosecution seventh witness alleged that the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Godwin Emefiele awarded contracts to companies belonging to his wife and his brother-in-law. Emefiele is standing trial on an alleged 20-count amended charge, preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before an FCT High Court in Maitama, Abuja. He was alleged to have engaged in criminal breach of trust, forgery, conspiracy t…