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The protesters at the complex chanted solidarity songs and displayed banners with different inscriptions such as 'Sack Bello Matawalle now,' and 'Our defence budget not in safe hands,' among others.
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Hundreds of protesters on Wednesday staged a march to the National Assembly, calling for the removal of the Minister of state for Defence, Bello Matawalle, for allegedly aiding banditry and insecurity in his home state – Zamfara. The protesters under the aegis of the Civil Society Advocacy Groups for Accountability and Probity also accused the defence minister of failing to prove his innocence in the sundry corruption allegations levelled against him by the Governor Dauda Lawal-led state government.