Mailafia Release by DSS Jos office

 

Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, on Monday, appeared at the Jos office of the Department of State Services (DSS)upon another  invitation but he was not detained.

The former Deputy Governor the Central Bank of Nigeria had last Thursday been the guest of the Jos office of the DSS who invited him following an interview he granted to a radio station, Nigeria Info, in which he accused an unnamed northern governor of being one of the commanders of Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Aside Mailafia’s invitation by the DSS, the National Broadcasting Commission had also fined the radio station N5m for what it described as hate speech.

However, unlike Mailafia’s last visit where he was grilled by men of the DSS for over six hours before he was released, Monday’s visit was more of a routine formality and therefore  brief as Mailafia emerged from the DSS office shortly after he went in.

He was accompanied to the DSS office by his wife, Margaret, the Jos branch chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Yakubu Bawa, among others.

Speaking earlier Dr. Mailafia 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,”

On why he was invited for the second time, he declared thus: “I don’t know the reason for my second invitation and if it is connected with my first invitation. Until I enter before I can tell you the reason”, the former presidential candidate of the Action Democratic Congress said in an answer to a correspondent inquest. Monday.

His lawyer, Yakubu Bawa, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday that the invitation was in connection with Mailafiya’s encounter with the DSS last week.