1. Abubakar Malami, a Fulani Muslim, was born on 17 April 1967 in Birnin Kebbi, the capital of Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria.
19 Facts About Abubakar Malami
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Abubakar Malami is an alumnus of the University of Maiduguri, where he obtained his master's degree in public administration in 1994.
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Abubakar Malami was actively involved in the formation of the All Progressives Congress in 2013 as the resource person to the Manifesto Drafting Sub-Committee of Inter Joint Party Merger Committees between the Congress for Progressive Change, Action Congress of Nigeria and the All Nigeria Peoples Party.
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In 2014, Abubakar Malami contested for the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress in Kebbi State but stepped down during the party primaries in favour of Atiku Bugudu.
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On 11 November 2015, Abubakar Malami was appointed as Minister for Justice and Attorney-General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria thus making him the youngest minister in Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet.
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In December 2017, Abubakar Malami announced that the Federal Government has reached an agreement with the United States and Jersey to repatriate over $300 million of Nigerian public funds that had been stolen and stored abroad by former military head of state Sani Abacha.
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In June 2020, Abubakar Malami filed a petition to the Government to remove the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu.
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Later in June 2020, Abubakar Malami wrote to state governors to inform them that no stamp duties had been recovered from 2016 to 2020.
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In June 2019, Abubakar Malami appeared before a disciplinary panel of the Legal Practitioners' Privileges Committee to face the petitioners seeking the stripping of his Senior Advocate of Nigeria rank for alleged misconduct.
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Aniagu's petition, which received over 10,000 online signatures, was based on the claim that Abubakar Malami unilaterally deleted certain provisions of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners in violation of the law.
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The reports have outlined how Abubakar Malami himself owns a hotel in Sokoto, four houses in Abuja, a school in Birnin Kebbi, and a hotel under construction in Abuja.
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Abubakar Malami was shown to have bought two houses for his sons in Birnin Kebbi and an event centre called Azbir Arena for one of his sons; both sons were known to drive expensive cars and have no known work history.
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The Abubakar Malami family were seen leaving chartered private jets when arriving in Birnin Kebbi for a family wedding.
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Abubakar Malami claimed that he declared all assets in the assets declarations filed with the Code of Conduct Bureau upon appointment in 2015 and again upon re-appointment in 2019.
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In May 2021, Abubakar Malami appeared before a House committee to answer for suspected diversion of recovered laundered money intended for the consolidated revenue account along with other alleged improprieties.
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Abubakar Malami denied his office received any money from the recovered money account and the Accountant General Ahmed Idris supported Abubakar Malami, claiming that the consolidated revenue account and recovered loot account are all subsets of the same Treasury Single Account making it appear as if the funds were transferred to the AGF office.
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Passage of the bill would remove the independence of anti-corruption agencies by putting them underneath the AG with Sahara Reporters reporting that Abubakar Malami's intention was to stop the prosecution of his allies.
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Just three months after the reports, Abubakar Malami sent a letter to the EFCC stalling the corruption trial of former Aviation Minister and Anambra North Senator Stella Oduah not long after she defected to the APC.
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Abubakar Malami co-founded the Khadimiyya for Justice and Development Initiative, a non-profit organization focuses on advancement of human society through fostering access to justice for citizens, and investing in human capital.