Speaks truth to power
Sanusi is not afraid to speak truth to power. In 2010, he was summoned by Nigeria’s highest lawmakers in the country’s National Assembly for cautioning that they posed a threat to the country’s future by consuming up to 25 percent of the country’s annual budget.
All efforts by the lawmakers to intimidate Sanusi into recanting his statement failed. He repeated his statement before the lawmakers as a note of caution in the interest of the Nigerian people.
Sanusi had also confronted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for its flawed economic advice, rejecting the advice by the IMF to weaken the Nigerian currency, Naira.
He asserted that the advice was based on flawed logic.
