a statement issued in Abuja.

The statement reads, “The death of the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Abuja, this (Sunday) morning came to us as a great shock.

“As someone who relentlessly participated in the activities of the Middle Belt Forum, his untimely death has dealt a deadly blow on ethnic nationalities of not only the Middle Belt but the country at large.

“Arising from various enquiries from Nigerians over the circumstances of his death, the Forum wishes to state as follows: That Dr. Mailafia arrived in Abuja last Sunday, September 12, 2021, from Akure and was received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport by his wife.

“On arrival at home, the wife noticed that he was not in the best of health conditions and seemed to be suffering from malaria. After three days of treatment without signs of improvement, he went to the CBN Hospital on Friday, September 17, 2021, where he was shabbily treated. It took the intervention of a senior medic who immediately placed him on oxygen and admitted him.


“Dr. Mailafia was later given the option of choosing three hospitals: Gwagwalada Hospital, National Hospital and EHA Clinics. The wife opted for the third choice. On arrival at the EHA Clinics, the wife was subjected to yet another moment of anxiety as it took a direct order from the top management of the hospital to accept him.

“After a few hours of treatment, the EHA Clinics told the wife that it was expedient to transfer the former CBN Deputy Governor to Gwagwalada, as the clinic was not fully equipped to handle the case.

“The wife opposed the decision and insisted that she was opposed to the idea of taking her husband to Gwagwalada. Mailafia’s wife only succumbed when the consultant assured her that nothing bad will happen to her husband.

“Yesterday, Saturday, September 18, 2021, Dr. Obadiah was transferred to Gwagwalada. On arrival, the doctor that was billed to attend to Dr. Mailafia was not on duty. Even when an attempt was made by foreign health consultants to save the situation, the doctor on duty got angry and said that he was not obligated to listen to any foreign consultants that had been brought into the matter with the sole purpose of ensuring that nothing goes wrong.

“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. 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 who lives 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 that there was nothing they could do since they had already pronounced him dead.


“While the above narration sums up the circumstances under which Dr. Mailafia died, we still await the result of the actual cause of his death. As a nationalist and patriot that he was, Dr. Mailafia was completely dedicated to the emancipation of ethnic nationalities from the clutches of oppression.

“The economist was never afraid to speak truth to power, just as he remained committed to the enthronement of justice and equity to all citizens across ethnic and religious divides.

“In the twilight of his life, this consummate technocrat and global scholar of repute beamed his searchlight on the raging insecurity ravaging our country. He expressed regrets over the government’s incapacity to rein in the activities of insurgents and criminal groups terrorising the nation.

“The death of Dr. Mailafia today represents a dark day for not only the Middle Belt but also for all citizens who yearn for a new dawn for justice in Nigeria.”

Efforts to reach officials of the hospital proved abortive as of the time of filing this report.


https://punchng.com/how-obadiah-mailafia-was-shabbily-treated-at-abuja-hospital-mbelt-forum/

Something is wrong somewhere

Nigeria killed him
When the regular citizens are complaining and protesting, they would be in their offices listening to news but forgetting any small mishap e go reach their hand.

RIP Dr Malafia

Please get vacinated, and observe covid 19 procedures, best hands in the Nigerian Medical sector have left the country, some of the remaining health workers are as cold hearted as an assassin..... He was allowed to die because of ordinary 650,000 deposit

That malaria or common cold might be something else especially when you lost sense of taste or smell briefly

Quickly get it tested properly, and don't make assumptions

A damaged lungs would simply suddenly without notice start giving you pneumonia or asthmatic symptoms even several months after you treated that old malaria and you felt safe several months ago

Once your lungs are bad poverty would kill you ... Cheapest daily expenses on Oxygen and ventilator daily is N50,000 , that's without cost of bedspace daily N10,000 , RV drips, Antivirus medication, Chest X-ray, Chest CT Scan , multi vitamins, anti inflammatory steroids



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Oxygen ! Una sure say no be corona

The killing was international

So we've become a fascist state killing all who oppose the government unless something happens quickly Buhari will likely be able to run for a third term without much opposition

The hospital was complicit to his death.

I suspect that doctor.

Xzellentgraphic:
The killing was international

Supu!!!

Abohboy:
So we've become a fascist state killing all who oppose the government unless something happens quickly Buhari will likely be able to run for a third term without much opposition

So every Nigerian that died in Government Hospital was killed because they opposed the government?
This sort of reasoning is too pedestrian and illogical to be parroted by an adult.

Obviously he died of corona.

I ask repeatedly who are those people already vaccinated while someone like him was not.

vedaxcool:


So every Nigerian that died in Government Hospital was killed because they opposed the government?
This sort of reasoning is too pedestrian and illogical to be parroted by an adult.

There's a difference help was stopped from being administered how can you compare this to every Nigerian when there were people there to help him

Xzellentgraphic:
The killing was international

You mean interstellar"ly"

vedaxcool:


So every Nigerian that died in Government Hospital was killed because they opposed the government?
This sort of reasoning is too pedestrian and illogical to be parroted by an adult.

All the symptoms in the description from suspected malaria to breathing difficulties suggest Covid but the way it was handled coupled with the reluctance of the wife to agreeing to the gwagwalada transfer firmly points towards Assassination/execution

Abohboy:


There's a difference help was stopped from being administered how can you compare this to every Nigerian when there were people there to help him

Help comes for a fee, in his case a deposit of whooping 650,000

This guy had COVID-19. I don't know why the writer is economical with the truth

He will be remembered for being fearless

Abohboy:


There's a difference help was stopped from being administered how can you compare this to every Nigerian when there were people there to help him

Help was stopped by who? The same thing happens to ordinary Nigeria, like a case that happen early this year of a woman who suffered internal bleeding after surgery but the Nigerian doctors refused to take the advised of a foreign doctor that she might be suffering internal bleeding and she ended up dead ... I asked was this individual opposed to the government to have suffered such fate? Do you know how many patients get turned away for one reason or the other?

One has to thank God, that an average northerner especially Muslim accepts death as a decree from God I shudder to think of them reacting the same way when Ya' adua fell ill and eventually passed on.

Only God knows how many people die of corona in Nigeria daily.

He stood for what he believed was right and history will not forget him

If he was truly killed whoever killed him and those who planned it should not die again.


However since there is no tangible prove that he was killed then "let the dead bury their dead" and pray to God to accept his soul.

Another victim of the vaxxine

BKayy:

All the symptoms in the description from suspected malaria to breathing difficulties suggest Covid but the way it was handled coupled with the reluctance of the wife to agreeing to the gwagwalada transfer firmly points towards Assassination/execution

And the entire management of gwags hospital were part of the conspiracy? Or you think the hospital is a small village chemist? Let's be sensible in how we think. This seems more like shabby treatment than assassination because for such a plot to succeed it will require so many people who are not in part of the of the core of government. To think many doctors who are at loggerheads with government will quickly jump to murder a big man at he behest of a government they are not happy with. But conspiracy got to conspirate... So enjoy..