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Confusion as FG Orders EFCC to Probe Sitting Chairman, Lamorde Over N1 Trillion

Posted by Samuel on Tue 27th Oct, 2015 - tori.ng

In an unprecedented move, the Federal Government has mandated the EFCC to begin the probe of its own chairman, Lamorde.

EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde
 
The Federal Ministry of Justice, has reportedly ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to commence investigation into the allegation that the agency’s chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, diverted about N1 trillion proceeds of corruption recovered by the anti-graft agency.

The request follows a petition dated September 18, 2015, sent to the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Abdullahi Yola.

The petition was filed by a security expert and Chief Executive Officer of a security firm, Panic Alert Security Systems (PASS), George Uboh.

Uboh sent a reminder letter dated September 28, to Yola, threatening to sue the ministry, if he failed to respond to his petition within seven days.

In the petition, Uboh asked the Justice Ministry, through which EFCC derives its power to immediately rescind the fiat to prosecute criminal suspects from EFCC.

He also sought a 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.


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