El-Rufai: MBF backs Musa, demands probe into alleged bandit payments

Vanguard News | 08-09-2026 06:30pm |

The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has expressed solidarity with the Minister of Defence, Gen Christopher Gwabin Musa (retd), over his recent comments concerning the administration of former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. The forum demanded an independent investigation into allegations of payments to bandits during El-Rufai's tenure and a review of unresolved cases of mass killings in Kaduna State under his administration. The demands were made at a press conference on Tuesday by the MBF's National Spokesman, Luka Binniyat, following controversy generated by Musa's appearance on Channels Television's Politics Today on September 3, 2026. During the programme, Musa had said, "We can never be happy with somebody who has deliberately planned for the killing of our people," in an apparent reference to El-Rufai.

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