Afrigather The demand for the investigation of the Minister of State for Defence and former Governor of Zamfara State, Mohammed Bello Matawalle, over alleged hyperlinks with banditry thickened on Tuesday when members of the All Progressives Congress below the aegis of APC Akida Discussion board stormed the Headquarters of the Division of State Providers (DSS) in Abuja.
In keeping with them, the DSS ought to conduct the investigation to not castigate the previous Governor however to avoid wasting tens of millions of Nigerians and safeguard the integrity of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and safety businesses, particularly the intelligence neighborhood.
As simply as 9:30 am, the protesters led by the Chairman of APC Akida Discussion board (AAF), Mallam Musa Mahmud, have been on the DSS Headquarters the place they dropped a petition which was obtained by a senior official of the key police.
The petition reads, “We’re the APC Akida Discussion board, a socio-political strain group headquartered in Kaduna State.
We write to convey to your consideration an pressing nationwide concern affecting tens of millions of Nigerians’ lives. The APC Akida Discussion board is critically involved by the allegations made by the present Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal, towards his predecessor and now Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle.
“A collection of interviews granted on nationwide tv have gone viral. In these interviews, the Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, raised grave considerations about his inherited points upon assuming workplace.
“These points embody Bello Matawalle, his predecessor and junior protection Minister, being accused of sponsoring bandits and misappropriating state funds. The extreme issues strike on the coronary heart of governance, safety, and the welfare of the folks of Zamfara State and shouldn’t be dealt with frivolously.
We contemplate it our accountability as loyal social gathering members to hunt an intensive investigation into the intense claims to uphold the integrity of our social gathering and our esteemed chief, the President. Failing to handle these points might harm our social gathering and the status of related safety businesses.
“We wish to emphasize that the problems right here will not be simply political issues. They embody issues of life and loss of life, financial survival, and the elemental human rights of the residents of Zamfara State, the North West, and Nigeria as a complete. Therefore, we ship this enchantment to the Division of State Providers (DSS) as a result of Nigerians place confidence in the establishment as a gate keeper. We wish the DSS to launch an impartial probe into the quite a few allegations towards the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle.
“We, as loyal social gathering members, have to be involved about these points. Critical challenges and campaigns are underway throughout the nation, concentrating on the hard-earned status of our chief, the President. A part of that is attributable to folks’s earlier actions, similar to Bello Matawalle. We wish the DSS to conduct the investigation to not castigate the state minister for Defence, Bello Matawalle, however to avoid wasting tens of millions of Nigerians and safeguard the integrity of the president, safety businesses, particularly the intelligence neighborhood.
“The Division of State Providers is in the perfect place to advise the President to alleviate Bello Matawalle from his place in order that he can face an investigative panel. The state minister for Defence ought to make clear his connections with harmful people like Bello Tagoji, Musa Kamarawa, and Ardon Zuru. Kachalla Auwalun Daudawa is a bandit who kidnapped the Kankara college students in 2020. There are heavy allegations that Matawalle purchased a home for him within the Damba space of Gusau, the capital of Zamfara State.
“When Bello Tagoji, a bandit warlord, was arrested in January 2023, the Commissioner of Safety, DIG Mamman Tsafe, went to bail him out on Matawalle’s directive. These will not be summary considerations. They signify precise, tangible violations of the rights of Zamfara’s residents — the correct to training, healthcare, financial safety, and to dwell free from the fixed menace of banditry and violence.
“These points must be on the forefront of any cheap Nigerian who means properly for the nation and our pricey social gathering.
The declare that Matawalle “stays loyal to President Bola Tinubu and has the total belief of the administration” is kind of regarding. Since when has loyalty to a sitting president turn into a measure by which a person accused of associating with harmful bandits must be unquestionably protected?
“Bello Matawalle is just not the one Minister in our authorities. Why is he the one one with many questionable pasts and closely surrounded by allegations? Why is no person accusing the substantive and senior Defence Minister, His Excellency Badaru, of involvement with bandits or any killer group? Any wise one that has our social gathering at coronary heart have to be frightened.
“The APC Akida Discussion board (AAF) believes that the place there’s smoke, there’s hearth. To uphold transparency and equity, we strongly urge Bello Matawalle to step down from his place and topic himself to an intensive investigation. That is crucial to make sure accountability and keep the integrity of his particular person as a mum or dad and a member of the largest and most vital political social gathering in Africa, the APC.”
