Guverineri wa Banki Nkuru y’Amerika (Federal Reserve), Lisa Cook, yatanze ikirego arega Perezida Donald Trump nyuma yo gushaka kumukuraho amushinja ibyaha byo kwiba mu nguzanyo z’ipiganwa (mortgage fraud), ibyo abamwunganira bita “ibirego bidafite gihamya.”
Cook arega ko ibyo Trump yakoze ari “uburyo budasanzwe kandi bunyuranyije n’amategeko” bwo kumukuraho ku mirimo ye muri Banki Nkuru no mu nama yemeza ibyerekeye inyungu z’igihugu.
Mu kirego cye, Cook yasabye urukiko gufata itegeko ry’agateganyo rihutirwa rizagumaho kugeza igihe urukiko ruzaba rwasuzumye mu mizi ibirego bye. Yasabye kandi ko urukiko rugaragaza ko “kwirukanwa kwe kwa tariki 25 Kanama 2025 kwari mu buryo bunyuranyije n’amategeko kandi ntacyo kubuze,” bityo akaguma ku mwanya we nk’umwe mu bagize Inama y’Ubuyobozi ya Federal Reserve.
Cook yifuza kandi ko urukiko rugaragaza ko “ibirego bitagira gihamya by’inyandiko z’inguzanyo (mortgage fraud) byavuzwe mbere y’iyemezwa rye nk’umuyobozi bitabasha kuba impamvu yo kumukuraho.”
Ibirego byo gushaka kumukuraho Trump abishingira ku byo Umuyobozi wa Federal Housing Finance Authority, Bill Pulte, yatangaje bwa mbere ku wa 20 Kanama.
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Lisa Cook ni umugore wa mbere w’umwirabura wabaye mu nama y’ubuyobozi ya banki ifatwa nk’ingenzi kurusha izindi ku isi. Ntabwo aregwa icyaha na kimwe.
Itegeko rigenga Banki Nkuru y’Amerika (Federal Reserve Act) rivuga ko abayobozi bayo bakurwa mu mirimo gusa “kubera impamvu” (for cause), bivuze ubugenzuzi bwihariye ku makosa cyangwa kunanirwa inshingano. Ariko, mu ibaruwa Trump yandikiye Cook, yavuze ko guverinoma yizera ko “ashobora kuba yaratanze amakuru atari yo mu nyandiko z’inguzanyo.”
Abanyamategeko ba Cook bavuga ko Trump atigeze yerekana ko habayeho “ubuswa, kunanirwa inshingano cyangwa amakosa akomeye mu kazi,” aribyo byonyine byakubahiriza itegeko ryo kumukuraho.
Mu rindi baruwa, abamwunganira bagaragaje ko “nta na rimwe Perezida cyangwa Pulte bavuze ko Cook yagiriwe inyungu n’ikosa ryanditse, cyangwa ko iryo kosa ryakozwe ku bushake.” Ariko Pulte we yanditse kuri X avuga ko Cook yemeye “amakosa y’icapiro, nubwo avuga ko atari yo yari agamije.”
Cook avuga ko “n’iyo ibyo Perezida amushinja byaba ari ukuri—which she did not—ntibyari gutuma haboneka impamvu ikwiriye yo kumukuraho.”
Ikirego cye cyashyizwemo kandi Inama y’Ubuyobozi ya Federal Reserve ndetse na Perezida wayo Jerome Powell, kuko amategeko asaba ko ari bo bagomba gushyira mu bikorwa icyemezo cyemewe n’amategeko cyo gukura umuyobozi ku mirimo.
