Matawalle was responding to the security team comprised of police and the Department of State Services (DSS) breaking into his home on Friday.
Bello Matawalle, the former governor of Zamfara State, claims that the majority of the vehicles that the security forces removed from his two homes in Gusau and Maradun were purchases he made prior to that position.
Matawalle was responding to the security team comprised of police and the Department of State Services (DSS) breaking into his home on Friday.
Channels Television had shown how agents arrived at the former governor’s house right away and began removing the vehicles.
Matawalle, however, claimed that the security personnel had stolen his wives’ and kids’ clothing supplies while speaking to BBC Hausa on Saturday.
He claimed that contrary to what his successor, Dauda Lawal, claimed, he did not receive a copy of the court order authorizing the security agents to enter his homes.
The immediately preceding governor claimed, “I have been in the car business for a very long time, and most of the vehicles the security personnel impounded from my two houses are those that I bought from America long before I became a governor.”
He claimed that some of the vehicles seized at his Maradun home were gifts from well-wishers and all of them bore his and President Tinubu’s likenesses on the side.
“The cars they seized at Maradun were gifts from well-wishers, and they were all imprinted with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s and my images. But surprisingly, they claimed that the cars are state-owned,” the man said.
In response to the security agents’ assertion that 40 vehicles had been retrieved from his residences, Matawalle said, “The security agents should put the 40 vehicles on display for the public to judge. Anyone who is familiar with Bello Matawalle will assume that I have been involved in the auto industry ever since I was elected governor of Zamfara State.
In addition, he claimed that the security guards recovered his wives’ and family members’ valuables in addition to their vehicles.
The former governor claimed that while he was in Abuja, no one called to ask for his assistance with the matter. However, all he had heard was that the security personnel had broken into his private residences, as if there were no laws or order in Nigeria, he bemoaned.
Matawalle concluded his statement by saying, “I will however follow an appropriate channel as stipulated by the law.” He added that he would not ask the security guards or the state government to return the vehicles.
