The protesters who visited the National Assembly on Tuesday called on the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to put pressure on President Bola Tinubu to sack Mr Matawalle.
A group of protesters has demanded the sack of the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, over alleged fraud and banditry.
Shortly before he left office on 29 May, the anti-graft body- EFCC- accused him of misappropriating N70 billion belonging to the state government. “A Defence Portfolio to an inefficient and corrupt leader who allegedly romanced bandits was perhaps one of the biggest mistakes of this administration, but it can be corrected with the Senate giving a voice in that direction, a part of the petition read.
Continuing, the protesters said Mr Matawalle on Friday 20 October denied the allegation of embezzling billions of Naira through the Zamfara Cargo Airport project; a development that pushed the state government to reel out evidence backing the allegations.
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