The Nigerian Accountability and Leadership Alliance (NALA) has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigeria Police Force to investigate alleged $1.5 million crude oil supply fraud involving some top officials in the oil sector.

Speaking during a protest in Abuja, the spokesperson of the group, Comrade Lion Agorry, said the EFCC and police need to give swift attention to the investigation and see it through to a conclusive end.

The group said: “We have, through series of investigations, uncovered myriads of documents and petitions indicting some serving and non-serving members of staff, lawyers and certain individuals who through false pretence collected $1,536,000 million dollars in a manner that epitomises the classic advance fee fraud known popularly as 419.”

It said that in documents already in the public domain, a purported seller and representative of the NNPC, on June 2, 2025 in a purchase and sales agreement signed by a certain company, brazenly used the logo and particulars of the NNPC to collect funds for crude oil sales.

The group noted that in fulfilment of the agreement, the company transferred the following funds to the law office of a purported lawyer to escrow funds of the NNPC to wit: $136,000 on August 10 2025; $200,000 on November 13, 2025; $645,000 on September 26, 2025; $500,000 on November 12, 2025 and $55,000 on November 13, 2025 totalling $1,536,000.

“In a letter signed by the NNPC Limited General Counsel and Company Secretary, Mrs Adesua Dozie, dated January 13, 2026, the NNPC denied involvement in the deal,” Agorry said.

“According to the letter, the NNPC is not involved in the fraud scheme, adding that the documents in question did not emanate from the NNPC.”

The group further said, “The law is trite on the use of false pretence (a lie of misleading act) to dishonestly obtain property that can be stolen or induce someone to deliver it. Section 419 of Nigeria’s Criminal Code Act deals decisively with obtaining by false pretences, making it a felony to use false statements or conduct, with intent to defraud, to get anything capable of being stolen, punishable by imprisonment for three to seven years.

“The Federal Republic of Nigeria under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu, is employing tremendous effort to not only get things right but to reshape the narrative surrounding the good image of our beloved country, Nigeria.

“Given Nigeria’s battered image abroad, and the rampant fraud allegations within and outside the NNPCL, we humbly call on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Nigerian Police to give swift attention to the investigation and see to its conclusive end.”

The group also called on the NNPC management to exonerate itself by officially writing to relevant anti-graft agencies to investigate the use of the logo and particulars of the NNPC by unauthorised persons.