For the third time since about the middle of August, the Department of State Security has invited Dr. Obadiah Mailafia to appear before it on Monday, September 14.
This is a continuation of his grilling by the spy Police over his disclosure on a radio programme that he and some leaders were informed by repentant Boko Haram fighters that a serving Northern governor is a commander of the Islamist group.
He said in a statement that he had been ordered to appear before the DSS at their Jos HQ this coming Monday 14th September, at 11.00 am.
“This is in addition to our battle in court, as my lawyer appears before a Jos High Court today Friday the 11th, seeking a restraining order against the DIG Criminal Investigations Department (CID) who are also pursuing me,” the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria said in the statement.
Mailafia recalled that he spent over 20 years of his working life abroad as a university teacher, banker and international civil servant with unblemished record with no criminal record, “not even a parking ticket.”
“Sadly, it is in my own fatherland that I’m being subjected to criminal investigation and such extreme political persecution. Please, pray for me. I have reasons to believe that my life is in danger and that some powerful political forces want to silence me forever,” he noted.
Mailafia said that he was being hounded “for speaking on behalf of the holy martyrs — of thousands of innocent children, women, elderly and youths that have been killed in our beloved country. It is only in our benighted country that a man who speaks from his conscience can be hounded like a common criminal”.
He asked for moral support from friends and colleagues, pleading with those who are around Jos area or who can easily travel to Jos to “please kindly mobilise and be there en masse to support me on Monday at 11.00 am as I go once again into the Lions’ Den. I’m a believer in nonviolence”.
“Please, no-one should throw even a little stone on my behalf. Let us become candles of light and peace in this Age of Darkness. Thank you so immensely and may God bless you all,” he said.
