Mailafia Leaves DSS Office After Monday’s Invitation By Secret Police
The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Obadiah Mailafia, has left the Jos office of the Department of State Services (DSS) after he was again invited by the service earlier on Monday.
Mailafia was last Thursday invited by the service after he claimed in a radio interview that a northern governor was the leader of the Boko Haram terrorists and also made a remark regarding the killings in Southern Kaduna.
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The station, Nigeria Info, was subsequently fined N5million for hate speech by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)
According to Punch, the former CBN deputy governor, who was accompanied by his wife, and the Jos branch chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Yakubu Bawa, among others, had gone to the office of the secret police, upon the invitation and came out shortly.
He was quoted to have said: “There seems to be more interest in what I have to say than the killings in Southern Kaduna. But all I am saying is that the killing of my people in the state and in other parts of Nigeria must stop.”
Recall that the secret police had on Friday, claimed that the former presidential candidate of the Action Democratic Congress, had apologised for spreading fake news.
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The 63-old had also after last Thursday’s invitation by the DSS, maintained his claim.
He is yet to speak on the latest invitation.
