A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, has reportedly resigned his appointment from National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPPS.
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that Mr Mailafia was an instructor at NIPSS, Nigeria’s flagship policy formation center for civil servants, private sector leaders, located at Kuru, the Plateau State capital.
Giving his reasons for the resignation, Mr Mailafia told Daily Trust that he disengaged his services from the institution on his own and in protest for the killings in Southern Kaduna.
He said: “Nobody asked me or pressurized me to resign. I did it on my own.
“I decided that I cannot continue working, with all my good conscience, when my people are continually being killed and genocide is being committed against my people.
“That was the reason I gave, and the management has accepted my resignation.
“I gave them one month’s notice from 18th August to 18th September when the resignation will take off properly. And my resignation is for the best interest of everybody,” he added.
Recall that Mr Mailafia had been interrogated by the State Security Service, SSS, following his interview with a Lagos-based FM Radio in which he alleged that one of the Northern governors is a Commander of Boko Haram.
Recently, a pro-peace and security group, Concerned Citizens on Peace and Security in Northern Nigeria, CCPSNN, had called on the management of the NIPSS to disengage the services of the self-acclaimed statesman over his recent vituperations.
In a statement on Sunday, August 16, the group’s Coordinator, Salisu Usman and his Secretary, Kefas Ndang, said Mr Mailafia deserves no public office, much less having the privilege of lecturing the country’s elites to formulate policies and strategies.
“…an instructor that trains eminent citizens on policies and strategies on how best to govern the country, is clearly a failure with tendencies of impacting his bad notions and thought on his students,” the statement said.
