By Suleiman Anyalewechi
Hearing on the bail application filed by former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, and his son in the alleged terrorism charges filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was on Friday, February 20, 2026, stalled following the public holiday declared by the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.
The Source reports that the Department of State Service, DSS, had, on February 3, 2026, arraigned Malami and his son on a five-count charge bordering on alleged terrorism financing and unlawful possession of firearms.
The DSS, in their motion on notice filed before Honourable Justice Joyce Abdul-Malik of an Abuja Federal High Court, also accused Malami, the immediate past AGF and Justice Minister under late President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration, of deliberately refusing or neglecting to prosecute suspected terrorism financiers whose case files were forwarded to his office as the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Federation.
The anti-graft Commission also accused the defendant of stockpiling a large cache of arms and ammunition at their Birni-Kebbi residence.
The defendants who pleaded not guilty to the charges, however, had their oral application filed by their Counsel, Shuaibu Aruwan, rejected by the presiding Judge who insisted on a written bail application.
But with the work free day declared by the FCT to enable workers travel to their respective areas for the Saturday, February 21, Council polls, the Court could not sit.
Subsequently, proceedings were adjourned till February 27, 2026, by the presiding Judge.
The defendants, therefore, are to continue to be in the DSS’s custody , until the next adjourned date .
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