Dr. Obadiah Mailafia has been unconditionally released by the Department of State Security (DSS) after being drilled for over six hours.


The former CBN deputy governor was at the Jos office of the DSS on invitation following an interview he granted an Abuja based Radio Station where he alleged among other things that an incumbent governor from the North was backing Boko Haram. 


Dr. Mailafiya was released yesterday around 6:40pm from the DSS HQ in Jos.


In an chat with newsmen after his release he said  "yes I was with the State Security Services, we have a lively and intense conversation over a radio interview that I gave the other day, that interview which was meant for an FM radio station, some one picked the clip, a small section of the 55 minutes broadcast and it on social media and went very far, all over the country, raising a lot of concerns.


"Yes all of those words where made by me, but if the whole 55 minutes interview was played out, the context of what I said in the simple clip that went viral would have become more clearer.


"This is not the time to disown what I said. Yes I was privy to some very sensitive information which all statements I entitle to have by virtue of our public roles.


"I know that I, should have taken more care to corroborate some of the information that I received but perhaps some of it was uncorroborated.


"I was in opposition to follow them to their camps and to corroborate what was going on, but I am not a sensationalist. Am an economist the central banker, by our nature we are  savable we are not given to sensationalists. 


"Let me make it clear, I am a humanist, I am a man of peace. I love our country dearly and I abhor from the bottom of my heart all the killings and violence to which innocent people in this country have been subjected to I pray that Nigeria will never experience another civil war.


He prayed that the killings will stop in North West and Middle-belt and North east.


"I want to thank the officials of the State department, they have done tremendous job, they treated me professionally, they have not handled me so roughly, and they have been very fair and gracious to me," he said.