Group petitions EFCC urging investigation against ex-AGF,MALAMI,over alleged corruption and financial mismanagement.

Monday, December 29, 2025 -The Human and Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA, has submitted a new petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, urging the agency to investigate former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, over alleged corruption and financial mismanagement.

The petition, dated December 23, 2025, was addressed to EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede and signed by HEDA Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju.

It follows an earlier petition filed by the group on September 11, 2023, and comes as Malami faces criminal charges, with arraignment scheduled for January.

HEDA said the submission was based on new audit reports, investigative findings, and legislative probes that allegedly implicate Malami during his tenure.

The organisation claimed an audit report by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation indicted the Ministry of Justice for the mismanagement of N113.2 million in 2019, citing expenditures without proper documentation or adherence to public finance regulations.

Another audit allegedly revealed billions of naira spent in 2017, including N10.4 billion paid as judgment debts without proper oversight.

The petition also referenced payments of N32.5 million in foreign travel allowances lacking mandatory approvals, and 68 payment vouchers totaling N71.19 billion reportedly unavailable for audit verification.

HEDA further cited a Senate Public Accounts Committee investigation into an alleged N2.2 billion collected by the Ministry from Service Wide Votes between 2017 and 2021, which lawmakers found inadequately accounted for.

Additional allegations include N8 billion spent on prison decongestion programmes without transparency or measurable outcomes, and the deliberate non-enforcement of a 2018 Supreme Court judgment under the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract Act, which could have generated over $55 billion for the Federation Account.

HEDA said the alleged actions constitute breaches of multiple laws, including the EFCC Act, Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, Public Procurement Act, Fiscal Responsibility Act, and Nigeria’s Financial Regulations.

The group urged the EFCC to expand its ongoing investigation to include the new allegations, recover any misappropriated funds, and prosecute all individuals found culpable.