The Federal Government has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the allegation that its chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, diverted about N1trn proceeds of corruption recovered by the anti-graft agency.
The directive was made through its Ministry of Justice following a September 18, 2015 petition to the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr. Abdullahi Yola.
The petitioner, George Uboh, had sent a reminder letter dated September 28, to Yola, threatening to sue the ministry if it failed to respond to his petition within seven days.
George Uboh, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, a security firm, had in his petition, asked the Justice Ministry “through which EFCC derives its power to prosecute, to immediately rescind the fiat to prosecute criminal suspects from EFCC.”
He also sought an immediate issuance of “fiat for the prosecution of EFCC’s past and present leadership and their known and unknown co-conspirators via the 22-page preliminary criminal charges the undersigned has prepared.”
He had earlier petitioned the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, levelling the same set of allegations against Lamorde, and received the ministry’s letter dated October 8, 2015.
The fraud allegedly perpetrated by Ibrahim Larmode was said to have dated back to his days as the Director of Operations of the EFCC between 2003 and 2007 as well as when he acted as the chairman of the commission between June 2007 and May 2008, when the then EFCC boss, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, was away for a course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos.
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