He described the report linking him with the said bandit as malicious, wicked, and misleading, noting that although the report was published in an obscure news platform, “he didn’t find it funny.”

In a statement issued by his press office, the former senator insisted that the report was concocted by called, “disgruntled All Progressives Congress members in Zamfara” who wanted to weaken his political clout.

“The attention of the Media Office of Senator Kabir Garba Marafa has been drawn to a malicious, concocted, wicked lies and misleading report published in an obscure platform created by the agents of some disgruntled APC leaders. The report, alleging that one Abdulmuminu Moossa, a citizen of Chad Republic, reported having been arrested by the Nigerian security operatives in Sabon Birni LGA of Sokoto State, confessed to knowing Senator Marafa for more than seven years, was nothing but lies, concocted to dent the hard-earned reputation of the former lawmaker. Their machinations cannot stop what Almighty Allah has ordained. It is on record that Senator Marafa was the first to raise the issue of banditry, at its infancy on the floor of the Nigerian Senate, drawing the attention of the federal government and the global community to the activities of the criminals. Marafa, on many occasions, raised the issue on the floor of the Senate at the time these agents of falsehood were busy looting funds meant to procure arms to fight the twin evil of Boko Haram and banditry.”