{"id":31394,"date":"2020-09-15T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31394"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T11:02:49","slug":"my-comments-were-hearsay-i-have-no-evidence-embattled-mailafia-changes-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31394","title":{"rendered":"My comments were hearsay, I have no evidence, embattled Mailafia changes tune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, said on Monday he would have put his claim on Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East part of the country in a \u201cbetter language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential election had been questioned twice by the Department of State Services (DSS) for linking a serving governor with the terror group that had killed thousands and displaced over one million others in Nigeria\u2019s North-East since 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was grilled again on the matter by the DSS<\/a> at its Jos, Plateau State, office on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ex-CBN official later addressed his supporters after he was released by the agency at 2:55 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mailafia told the supporters he only advised the government to address the killing of innocent people in Southern Kaduna and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cI had a routine appearance with the Department State Security, Plateau state command. \u201cI am very pleased that I was treated very professionally. There was no harassment or intimidation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOver a month ago when I gave a radio interview, based on what I heard. If I had my way there are few things I would say differently, but I spoke on the spur of the moments, and I believed that it was a matter of greater urgency to make a wake-up call to what is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really mean to say that the government was part and parcel of the killings, I implied that they could do better because thousands are dying, innocent women and children, elderly, and youths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut if I have my way I would have put it in better language, and I have no way of corroborating some of these things, I heard it and I could have followed them into their camps to confirm because I might not come back to tell the story, so that is the reality.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have indicated that I have reason to believe that my life has been in danger. I have no conclusive proof but I get threat, I get calls. Where I was staying, on Thursday, I saw some strange people at the gate trying to break in. I jumped the fence and escaped because I don\u2019t know who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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