Mailafia blows hot again, says he won’t stop until killings stop

Under fire former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia has blown hot yet again, saying that he will not stop raising his voice until the wanton killings in Southern Kaduna and other parts of the country is brought to a screeching halt.

The development economist said this in an interview with Vanguard, where he also addressed questions surrounding his recent spat with the DSS, having been invited for grilling at least twice in the wake of his comments during Morning CrossFire, a radio program hosted by Lagos based FM, Nigeria Info.

“No, I will never ever tone down. I will tone down when the killings stop. Let me make it clear, I never lived in Southern Kaduna. I left that place when I was six months old. My parents were missionaries.

I was born in Southern Kaduna but I never lived there. I grew up in Nasarawa State and that has been my home since I was six months old. So I am not speaking because of Southern Kaduna; that is where I originally came from but I have never really lived there so it is not only about Southern Kaduna but about the whole country” Mailafia said during the interview.

Dr. Mailafia said that the truth has to be told regardless of the political feathers it may ruffle, holding that the sensitivities of the political accuracy of the truth should not be an altar upon which innocent lives continue to be slaughtered on a daily basis.

“killings going on constitute existential threat. I don’t know why for the life of me, that people tolerate the killings and think it is okay and that when we speak, and tell people about the reality of what we are facing now, they are more concerned about the sources, more concerned about political correctness, they have absolutely no concern about the holy martyrs that are being  slaughtered.

Why can’t we face the reality of the people being killed – the children, elderly, women, the youth being killed on a daily basis? That is my focus. Any other thing to me, is diversionary. People have questioned my sources. They have questioned my political correctness”.

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The former CBN number two man was horrified that this wanton destruction of lives and property has become the new normal, with many in the corridors of power keeping mum while women and children continue to be slaughtered every day.

“Why can’t they face the truth that our country is dying, that innocent people are being killed, that children are being slaughtered like little lambs, women are being raped and then killed? Is this a normal country? Where is the outrage? Why do people accept this profound evil, this curse on this land?

I reject it with the very fibre of my soul. So I will never tone down, I will only tone down when the killings stop. Just tell them, in the name of God and in the name of everything they hold sacred, they must stop these killings. It is an abomination! It is a curse on this land! So that is my stand”.

The former presidential candidate, who recently resigned from the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Plateau State, said his resignation was principally a personal decision and not by any means a result of his recent brush with the powers that be.

“First, let me make it clear that nobody asked me to resign. Nobody forced me to resign, but I resigned for two reasons: Number one, this is what I wrote that a genocide is going on in my hometown. Innocent people, including children and women are being killed but not only in my hometown, but throughout the country.

In Daura where I grew up as a young man, in Katsina, Birnin-Gwari, Zamfara, Yobe, Borno, Adamawa and it is even moving further South, innocent people are being killed. I cannot reconcile myself with that, working in an institution that is supposed to promote good public policies for the whole country. I find it difficult to operate in that environment and my conscience does not allow me to rest under this situation”.

“Number two, I studied the environment and I discovered that I shall not be able to function properly in all good conscience in that environment. I studied the body language and the situation in which I found myself, and I felt it was better to leave that environment” he said.