JUST-IN: Ex-AGF Malami Accuses Kebbi Governor Of Alleged Plans To Import Thugs, Foreign Mercenaries

Abubakar Malami, SAN, the immediate-past Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and person of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) successful Kebbi State, has petitioned the National Security Adviser (NSA), Inspector General of Police (IGP), Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), and the Comptrollers-General of Immigration and Civil Defence Corps, implicit alleged plans to destabilise Kebbi State done the importation of governmental thugs, overseas mercenaries, and clandestine arms trafficking.

The erstwhile Minister specifically accused the Kebbi State politician Nasir Idris, of being down sinister motives to soundlessness absorption politicians successful the State.

The petition, dated September 10, 2025, alleged that governmental actors were moving with overseas mercenaries from the neighbouring Niger Republic and arming them done amerciable channels. It further claimed that the individuals were being deployed to onslaught citizens, soundlessness absorption voices, and undermine bid successful the State.

According to Malami, the threats were not speculative but backed by credible quality and idiosyncratic experience. He cited a September 1, 2025 incidental successful which helium and his allies were allegedly attacked by equipped thugs “operating without fearfulness of instrumentality enforcement.”

The petition besides accused the Kebbi State governor, Comrade Nasir Idris, and his associates, of facilitating the amerciable operations, alleging covert links with the violent web Lakurawa.

The papers described the concern arsenic “a nationalist information emergency” that goes beyond section authorities and poses a nonstop menace to Nigeria’s sovereignty and interior stability.

Malami urged the NSA and different information chiefs to instrumentality urgent steps by coordinating inter-agency enactment crossed information services, securing borderline communities to forestall the influx of mercenaries and arms, and launching a high-level probe into the alleged collusion betwixt authorities officials and violent elements.

According to a station connected the verified Facebook leafage of Malami connected Thursday night, a connection signed by his media aide, Mohammed Bello Doka, said the petition was copied to the heads of the DSS, Police, Immigration, and Civil Defence, underscoring the urgency of the concerns raised.