Mailafia honours DSS’s 3rd invitation, says If he perishes he perishes
Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Obadiah Mailafia on Monday has honoured the invitation of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Jos.
Daily Times Nigeria reports that this will be the third invitation by the state service, following comments he made on live radio of those sponsoring the deadly terrorist sect, Boko Haram.
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Recall he stated then that the leader of the sect is a governor from the northern part of the country of which DSS has described as “fake news” designed to create “unnecessary tension” in the country.
A cross-section of the crowd protesting the ‘intimidation’ of former CBN Deputy Governor, Mailafia by the DSS in Jos on September 14, 2020.
Meanwhile, Mailafia, has sued the DSS over the repeated invitations, which he described as an intimidation, harassment, persecution, and witch hunt.
On his arrival at the DSS office on Monday, people carried placards with different inscriptions calling for an end to his interrogation by security agents.
Mailafia said he honoured the invitation to show that he was a law abiding citizen of Nigeria and to clarify whatever issues the security officials had with him.
“I do not know why I have been invited yet again,” he said. “This has nothing to do with politics. I spoke as a citizen of this country, who loves the people of this country.
“I am the voice of thousands of voiceless people; Muslim youths have taken me as their voice, Christian youths have taken me as their voice; thousands of people have been killed in this country, in Borno, in Yobe, in Adamawa, in Katsina, in Daura, in Birnin-Gwari, in Zamfara, in Niger, in Southern Kaduna, in Benue, in Plateau, all over the country.
“Even the other day, a pregnant woman was killed in Bayelsa. I am the voice of the holy martyrs, and if I perish, I perish.”
