Mailafia Released After 7 Hours In DSS Custody

By GWG Staff

Dr. Obadiah Malafia, erstwhile deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has been released by the Department of State Services, DSS after more than seven hours of questioning on his recent interview with a radio station, Nigeria Info.

He had in the interview alleged that repentant Boko Haram members had told him that a serving Northern governor was a member of Boko Haram and that the group is expanding its operations in the country.

Following the interview on Monday, the DSS had invited him for questioning at its Jos, Plateau State office.

Obadiah who arrived the office at about 12.00 p.m. was released after about seven hours of questioning raising anxiety among sympathizers, lawyers and family who thronged the DSS office in solidarity with him.

The drawn out interrogation GWG gathered caused some tension around the DSS office forcing his wife, Mrs. Margaret Mailafia to cry out to national leaders to save her husband from whatever conspiracies that may be against him.

GWG gathered that the prolonged time he spent with the operatives in Jos was because of the back and forth between the office and the national headquarters in Abuja over the release of the former banker. It was learnt that the Jos office could not release him until Abuja gave the final order.

After seven hours in the premises of the DSS that he could not be intimidated and that the killings in those places in the North must stopped.

He said that they wanted more details from him concerning what he said and he said that he was not molested.

Mailafia had earlier said that all that he said was not new and has been generally available in the media space.

While the husband was in the custody of the operatives and as it seemed he was going to be detained overnight, his wife, Margaret said:

“We are calling on the international community, General Yakubu Gowon, Olusegun Obasanjo, T. Y. Danjuma, J. T. Useni, Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro, IBB and other stakeholders to intervene in the release of my husband.”

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