The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia has honoured a fresh invitation of the Department of Security Service (DSS), at its headquarters in Jos.
Mailafia, who was first interrogated by the secret police last week, following the comments he made in an interview with Nigeria Info 99.3 FM that a serving governor in one of the States in the North was a Commander of Boko Haram.
The DSS thereafter issued a statement, alleging that the former CBN Deputy Governor’s comments were unfounded and an attempt to cause a breach of the peace in the country.
The DSS Public Relations Officer, Dr. Peter Afunanya, in a statement on Friday, claimed Mailafia apologised profusely for his comments during questioning.
However, Mailafia, while addressing journalists after his visit to the DSS, said he stood by his allegations.
The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) also slammed N5 million fine on the radio station for alleged inciting comments.
Channels TV reports that Mailafia’s fresh invitation came at the weekend and he arrived the vicinity of the DSS office at about 12.12pm today (August 17) in company of his wife, Margaret, lawyer, Yakubu Bawa, Rev. Gideon Para-Malam, Barr. Nankin Bagudu among other supporters.
He was ushered into the premises of the security agency by some personnel accompanied only by Bawa and Para-Mallam. Before he went in, he acknowledged messages of solidarity from his supporters saying, “Thank you, thank you.”
Speaking with some journalists on arrival, he said: “I am honoured to have you here, I love you so much, I love our country. I have been invited again, I am just about to appear before them. The invitation came in the weekend so I had to honour it.
“I don’t know the reason I am being invited but as a good citizen of this country, as a loyal and obedient citizen of this country, I have to honour authority and respond when I am invited, to help them in the course of their enquiry”, he was quoted by Channels TV to have said.