Hassana Moyi

In 2021, Hassana Moyi was arraigned on charges of misappropriating over N553 million in public funds. The case was documented by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) as one of Nigeria's most significant corruption cases that year. Moyi's arraignment represented part of ongoing anti-corruption efforts during President Muhammadu Buhari's administration, which had made fighting corruption a central policy priority.

The case emerged during a period when Nigeria's anti-corruption agencies were actively pursuing high-profile financial crimes across various government institutions. Under the Fourth Republic, corruption cases involving hundreds of millions of naira had become increasingly common, prompting civil society organizations like HEDA to systematically document and track these cases. The substantial amount involved in Moyi's case reflected the scale of financial mismanagement that continued to challenge Nigeria's public institutions despite decades of anti-corruption reforms.