On Friday, armed security personnel raided Bello Mattawalle‘s home in Maradun, the immediate past governor of Zamfara State, and forced several vehicles off the property.
A Maradun resident who asked to remain anonymous claimed that security personnel from the Department of State Services (DSS) and the police broke into Matawalle’s residence on Friday afternoon, jacked up numerous automobiles, and then brought them to the local police station.
The source claims that the security officers went straight to the former Governor’s mansion and began evacuating the vehicles as soon as they arrived in Maradun.
“The security agents who were mostly in police uniforms came to the former Governor’s resident in the afternoon of today Friday and forced the gate opened.”
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“They went into the house, removed several vehicles, and took them to the police station here in Maradun town,” the source said.
Sections 34, 35, 37, 41, 42, and 43 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended were grossly violated, according to the Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which condemned the invasion in a statement in response to the incident.
He asserted that “the police and the DSS have acted wrongly and could be accused of being political in their actions” and that “the majority of the vehicles parked inside the former Governor’s residence have been evacuated.”
“We call on the Nigerian Police Force and Department of State Service (DSS) as a matter of urgency, to take a decisive stand against this misadventure by Zamfara State Government, and the perpetrators must be identified and made to face the dire consequences of their action.”
“The vehicles are his personal vehicles and some of the campaign vehicles used during the election period, I don’t know why security agencies without court warrants would do such a thing,” he added.
