How Mailafia died, was he really killed? – Group release

Reactions followed the announcement of Obadiah Mailafia, former deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  dead on Saturday, September 17. However, a group called the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has released what really killed Obadiah Malaifia.

The group on Sunday, September 19, released its version of how former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Obadiah Mailafia died.

Through its national publicity secretary, Dr Isuwa Dogo, the MBF made some clarifications on moments that led to Mailafia’s death at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital Gwagwalada, Abuja.

Foremost, the organisation raising suspicions, claimed that the former CNB deputy governor while battling for his life was shabbily treated by doctors.

The group said it took the intervention of a senior health practitioner to place Mailafia on oxygen and admission at an unnamed hospital.

According to a Punch report, the group disclosed that after being transferred to the EHA Clinic in Abuja, he was advised by the hospital’s management to be taken to Gwagwalada as the latter admitted that it lacks the facility for Mailafia’s case.

On arrival at the teaching hospital, the name of the doctor that was billed to attend Mailafia was not on duty.

Sadly, few hours before his death, Mailafia complained about his breathing problems. And after he was declared dead, calls made through one of his sons abroad to mount pressure on the chest of the deceased for resuscitation were reportedly rejected.

“Wife of the former CBN deputy governor was asked to pay the sum of N600,000 as a deposit even when it was a referral case, with an accruing medical bill to be settled by the CBN,” the statement read in part.

“At a point, Dr Mailafia complained over his breathing problems and pleaded with the doctors to place him on a ventilator. The doctors flatly refused. “Even after the doctors declared Dr Mailafia dead, foreign consultants who were brought into the matter through Dr Mailafia’s son that is living abroad, had directed a family member, who is a medical professional, with the wife of the CBN Deputy Governor, to mount pressure on the chest of Dr Mailafia for resuscitation and thereafter place him on life support.

“The doctors in Gwagwalada refused all entreaties by the family members of Dr Mailafia to follow the advice of the foreign consultants, insisting that they have already pronounced him dead. Even when the wife could feel the pulse of her husband, the doctor flatly declared there was nothing they could do since they had already pronounced him dead.”