{"id":114324,"date":"2024-09-19T18:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=114324"},"modified":"2024-09-19T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:53:20","slug":"matawalle-kept-bandits-in-govt-house-he-should-resign-zamfara-gov-lawal-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/matawalle-kept-bandits-in-govt-house-he-should-resign-zamfara-gov-lawal-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Matawalle kept bandits in govt house; he should resign, Zamfara Gov, Lawal alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1810639508720137334\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal has asked his predecessor and current Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, to step aside and clear his name on allegations of sponsoring bandits as well as money laundering while he served as governor.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nLawal who made the call in an interview on TVC on Wednesday, said if Matawalle had any integrity left in him, he should honourably step aside and clear his name from the serial allegations leveled against him.<\/p>\n<p>While responding to questions on the allegations against Matawalle, Lawal said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were him (Matawalle), I would resign and face all the allegations (insecurity &amp; money laundering) against me. Because from all the information we\u2019re getting, my predecessor (Matawalle) was fully involved in some of this banditry issue,\u201d Lawal said.<\/p>\n<p>Lawal had also accused Matawalle of looting the state and leaving behind an empty treasury for him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview earlier on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today, Lawal stated that when he assumed office, he realized that over N250 billion was not accounted for under Matawalle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEFCC made a pronouncement sometime around May 21, 2023, or there about that it was alleging that N70 billion was stolen. That means before I took over. By the time I took over, I realized that that N70 billion they mentioned was a child\u2019s play,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far based on available records, we realized over N250 billion was not accounted for. It is very funny. Let me explain to you the state I inherited. I inherited a very dysfunctional state. When I took over there was no N4 million in Zamfara State Government account \u2013 just empty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a backlog of salaries for four months. For three years. none of Zamfara\u2019s indigenes wrote either WAEC or NECO. I had to settle N1.3 billion for NECO and N1.6 billion for WAEC. 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