By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
After coming out of the State Security Service (SSS) office in Jos, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, has said that he is prepared to die for the truth.
Mailafia honoured his third invitation to the SSS office after a comment he made in August alleging that a governor in the north is the commander of Nigeria’s dreaded Boko Haram group.
In the interview, he claimed that Boko Haram and the bandits wrecking havoc in the North Central part of the country are one and the same.
Obadiah is from the Southern Kaduna, an area that has witnessed series of killings.
The SSS first invited Obadiah on August 12 to clarify the allegation he made. Five days after, he was re-invited. Today, September 14, he appeared again, making it the third in one month.
The endless invitation prompted some Nigerians to protest against what they termed ‘the harassment of Mailafia.’
Once he came out of the SSS office, he he addressed the protesters, saying: “I do not know why I have been invited yet again. 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,” Channels TV quoted him as saying.
