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NBC slams N5m fine on Nigeria Info over controversial interview with ex-CBN deputy go - Edoman - 08-13-2020 NBC slams N5m fine on Nigeria Info over controversial interview with ex-CBN deputy gov, Obadiah Mailafia The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has slammed a N5 million fine on Nigeria Info 99.3 over an interview with Obadiah Mailafia, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). During the interview which was conducted on Monday August 10, Mailafia alleged that repentant bandits told him and other stakeholders in the Southern Kaduna that a governor in one of the Northern states is a leader of the insurgency group, Boko Haram. Quote:“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. Following the controversy the interview generated, Mailafia was invited by men of the Department of State Services (DSS) and grilled for over six hours on Wednesday, August 12. In a statement released on Thursday, August 13, the NBC accused the radio station of providing its platform for Obadiah to “promote unverifiable and inciting views that could encourage or incite to crime and lead to public disorder”. The commission added that Mailafia’s claims were devoid of facts and in contravention of seven provisions of the recently amended broadcasting code. The statement reads Quote:“The National Broadcasting Commission has noted with grave concern, the unprofessional conduct of Nigeria Info 99.3FM, Lagos, in the handling of the Programme, “Morning Cross Fire”, aired on August 10, 2020, between 8.30am and 9.00am. RE: NBC slams N5m fine on Nigeria Info over controversial interview with ex-CBN deputy go - Edoman - 08-13-2020 I’m ready to lay down my life like Mandela - Mailafia says after release from DSS custody Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that he is ready to lay down his life for his country like Nelson Mandela after being invited by the Department of State Services (DSS) over his claim of a northern Governor being one of the commanders of Boko Haram. The former Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) reported to the Jos office of the DSS at about at about 12:48 pm on Wednesday August 12, accompanied by his lawyers Pius Akubo, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and Yakubu Bawa. Addressing his supporters who stormed the office of the DSS at Kuba road and stayed on till he was released by 6:30pm, Mailafia alleged that a section of the interview in which he made the comment was lifted, leaving out the context in which he made the statement. He said; Quote:“We had a lively and intense interview over a radio interview I granted. That interview which was meant for an FM radio station, some just picked the clip — a small section of the 55 minutes broadcast — and put it on social media and it went very very far all over the country, raising a lot of concerns. The economist turned politician added; Quote:“One of the greatest compatriots of this country, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, observes that no country can survive two civil wars. One civil war is bad enough. I also pray that the killings will stop in Zamfara, in Daura, in Katsina, in Birnin Gwari, in my beloved southern Kaduna, in the whole of the middle belt, in Borno, Adamawa and other places. b |