CBN governor in court over plagiarism

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An America based Professor, Victor Dike has dragged the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over plagiarism.


Dike who is Adjunct Professor at the School of Engineering and Technology, National University, Sacremento, in a statement of claims filed by his counsel, Mr. E.U. Chinedum, alleged that the CBN governor breached his copy rights at a public lecture he delivered at the 8th Convocation Ceremony of Igbinedion University in Okada, Edo State, on the 26th November 2010, titled 'Growth Prospects for the Nigerian Economy'.

Dike, who is also the Chief Executive Office and Founder, Centre for Social Justice and Human Development in California, US said that Sanusi copied verbatim from his articles without referring to him as the original author.

The professor claimed that Sanusi copied from pages 98,99 and 100 of his work titled, 'Review of the Challenges Facing the Nigerian Economy: Is National Development Possible Without Technological Capability?'

The plaintiff, stated the copied lines as follows:

"the challenges facing the economy is in-effective institutions and dilapidated infrastructure (bad roads, erratic power supply, limited access to potable water and basic healthcare, and in-effective regulatory agencies, etc). The plethora of reforms and policies are in-effective due to institutional failure (Hoff,2003)".

These sentences are from one of the publications where the CBN governor is alleged to have plagiarised.

Similarly at another lecture he delivered at the Convocation Square, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi. where Sanusi presented a paper titled 'Global Financial Meltdown and the Reforms in the Nigerian Banking Sector', the plaintiff alleged that Sanusi copied verbatim articles originally written and published by him without acknowledging him as the author of the works from where he (Sanusi) sourced the materials that made up his lecture.

The plaintiff stated that Sanusi on six different occasions copied his materials without acknowledging him as the original author of the works.

He is asking for the sum of N15 million as compensation, the cost of filing the suit and the cost of traveling to Nigeria.
The plaintiff also asked the court to declare that Sanusi plagiarized his works and breached his copy right.
He asked the court to direct Sanusi to retract the papers from the public by removing them from the CBN website.
The plaintiff further asked the court to make a publication in a national daily denouncing the authorship of the articles.
The court yesterday ordered the bailiff to paste the court's processes at the CBN after the bailiff deposed to an affidavit that the security at the office did not accept service.

The case was adjourned by Adamu Bello to 31st of May for mention.