{"id":64625,"date":"2023-06-10T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64625"},"modified":"2023-06-10T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T17:40:02","slug":"why-the-police-raided-former-gov-matawalles-residences-by-zamfara-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64625","title":{"rendered":"Why the Police raided former Gov. Matawalle&#8217;s residences, by Zamfara govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>POLICE RECOVER VEHICLES LOOTED BY MATAWALLE ON COURT ORDER, SAYS ZAMFARA GOV&#8217;T<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Zamfara State Government has cleared the air on the operation of the Nigeria Police Force that led to the recovery of vehicles looted by the former State Governor, Bello Mohammaed Matawalle.<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of Friday, The Nigeria Police Force stormed the residence of the former Governor, where over 40 vehicles were impounded.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued today in Gusau, the Spokesperson of the Zamfara Governor, Sulaiman Bala Idris, revealed that the Police have acted on a court order and a search warrant was obtained for the operation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64627\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64627\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230610-WA00601-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230610-WA00601-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230610-WA00601-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230610-WA00601.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the recovered vehicles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The statement read in parts: \u201cRecall that the Zamfara State Government has communicated officially to former Governor Bello Matawalle and his Deputy to return all the missing vehicles within five (5) working days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also lodged an official complaint with the Police on overriding public interest on wasteful looting of valuables including official vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, the Police sought a search warrant which was duly given by the court and hence raided Matawalle\u2019s residence in Gusau, Maradun Local Government, and another unidentified hideout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 40 vehicles were recovered including Three bulletproof vehicles and Eight SUVs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to reaffirm our commitment to recover all that belongs to the people. Our common resolve is to rescue and rebuild Zamfara. Recovering the proceeds of crime and public assets is a critical part of our rescue mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to call on the people of Zamfara to remain calm as we continue to record massive improvements in the areas of security and the lingering water scarcity in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* By <strong>Sulaiman Bala Idris<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to the Zamfara Governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLICE RECOVER VEHICLES LOOTED BY MATAWALLE ON COURT ORDER, SAYS ZAMFARA GOV&#8217;T The Zamfara State Government has cleared the air on the operation of the Nigeria Police Force that led to the recovery of vehicles looted by the former State Governor, Bello Mohammaed Matawalle. In the early hours of Friday, The Nigeria Police Force stormed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5786],"tags":[568,234,497],"class_list":["post-64625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-statement","tag-matawalle","tag-police","tag-zamfara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}