The Department of State Services (DSS) has invited a former Central Bank of Nigeria Deputy Governor, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, to its Jos office on Wednesday (today) to provide more information on a recent report credited to him that a governor from the northern part of the country “is the leader of Boko Haram.”
Mailafia said in a recent interview on a radio programme in Abuja radio station, 95.1FM, that some repentant terrorists revealed to him that a serving Northern governor was their commander.
He also claimed that Boko Haram terrorists had already infiltrated Southern Nigeria and their plan was to spark a second civil war.
“Some of us also have our intelligence networks. I have met with some of the bandits; we have met with some of their high commanders, one or two who have repented, they have sat down with us not once, not twice.
“They told us that one of the Northern governors was the commander of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Boko Haram and the bandits are one and the same. They have a sophisticated network. During this lockdown their planes were moving up and down as if there was no lockdown. They were moving ammunition, moving money, and distributing them across different parts of the country.
“They are already in the South, in the rain forests of the South. They are everywhere. They told us that when they finish these rural killings, they will move to phase two. Phase two is that they will go into urban cities, going from house to house killing prominent people”, Mailafia, was quoted to have said in the Monday interview.
The Punch reports that Mailafia confirmed the invitation , adding he was expected to be at the office of the secret police in Jos, Plateau state, on Wednesday.
“Yes, it true. The DSS invited me to appear in their Jos office tomorrow (Wednesday) by noon”, Mailafia told the newspaper.