Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, is still facing the heat for daring to uncover what prior to making his revelations public, were only making the rounds in secrets.
There has been speculations and going back and forths over who sponsores the terrorist group. We have had fingers pointing at former President Goodluck Jonathan, former Borno State governor Ali Modu Sheriff, some army chiefs, northern governors, and even Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai. With all the finger pointings, it is clear that Boko Haram does have the backings of someone from within, but who?
Now, the former Deputy Central Bank Governor is in trouble for speaking out loud, something that is in no way a secret.
Mailafia's disclosure earned him an invitation by the Department of State Services to appear at its Jos office following his interview with a radio station in which he accused an unnamed northern governor of being a leader of Boko Haram.
But while the former CBN Deputy Governor was still preparing to honour the DSS invitation, he received another invitation from the police authorities to appear at its Abuja office over the same issue.
The development made him to approach the court on the premise that the Nigeria Police had no right to invite him for interrogations on the same subject that the DSS had earlier invited him.
However, Plateau State High Court 5 presided over by Justice Arum Ashom in Jos on Tuesday ruled that the DSS had the right to invite Mailafia over the matter touching on internal security.
The court also held that the police had the right to invite him for questioning on the same subject matters.
Justice Ashom held that the double invitation by both the DSS and the police on the same issue did not amount to double jeopardy as moved by the applicant’s counsel.
The counsel for Mailafia, Mr Yakubu Bawa, who is also the Plateau State Chairman of Nigeria Bar Association, said had to brief his client before knowing the next line of action.