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Senate Reveals Why Former EFCC Boss, Lamorde is Yet to be Arrested
Posted by George on Mon 21st Mar, 2016 - tori.ngThe Nigerian Senate has revealed the major factor militating against the arrest of former EFCC chairman, Lamorde over alleged financial crimes.
Ibrahim Lamorde
Senate spokesperson, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, has said that the full attention which the leadership of the upper chamber was paying to the consideration of the 2016 budget, delayed the request for the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of the immediate past Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, according to the Punch.
Abdullahi told a correspondent in an interview that the process to ensure that the ex-EFCC boss faces investigation at the Senate was still on course.
He explained that since the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions had confirmed making a formal request to the office of the Senate President for the issuance of a warrant for Lamorde’s arrest, necessary actions would be taken in that regard.
He said, “If the committee has made its request to the Senate President, then it is left for somebody also to do his own part because in taking any decision, you must look at what the rules and regulations say.
“We must follow the procedure. It has certain basic things that must be met, perhaps, I want to believe that they are still in the process of doing what has to be done.
“What is our worry now is the budget. If when we have not passed the budget we are now expending energy on how somebody who had gone on ‘AWOL’ is brought back, people will accuse us of not being serious with the welfare of Nigerians.
“Right now we are concentrating our energy on what is key to Nigeria, which is the budget; which itself is a process.”
It will be recalled that the Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, had confirmed to a correspondent early on in the month that his panel had formally requested the office of the Senate President to issue a warrant for Lamorde’s arrest.
The upper chamber had asked the Anyanwu-led committee to begin the process of issuing the warrant of arrest on Lamorde.
The Senate is investigating Lamorde on a petition written against him by one Dr. George Uboh on an alleged diversion of over N1tn recovered from treasury looters by the anti-graft agency.
Uboh, the Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, had petitioned the Senate through the senator representing Delta-North senatorial district, Peter Nwaoboshi.
Abdullahi told a correspondent in an interview that the process to ensure that the ex-EFCC boss faces investigation at the Senate was still on course.
He explained that since the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions had confirmed making a formal request to the office of the Senate President for the issuance of a warrant for Lamorde’s arrest, necessary actions would be taken in that regard.
He said, “If the committee has made its request to the Senate President, then it is left for somebody also to do his own part because in taking any decision, you must look at what the rules and regulations say.
“We must follow the procedure. It has certain basic things that must be met, perhaps, I want to believe that they are still in the process of doing what has to be done.
“What is our worry now is the budget. If when we have not passed the budget we are now expending energy on how somebody who had gone on ‘AWOL’ is brought back, people will accuse us of not being serious with the welfare of Nigerians.
“Right now we are concentrating our energy on what is key to Nigeria, which is the budget; which itself is a process.”
It will be recalled that the Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, had confirmed to a correspondent early on in the month that his panel had formally requested the office of the Senate President to issue a warrant for Lamorde’s arrest.
The upper chamber had asked the Anyanwu-led committee to begin the process of issuing the warrant of arrest on Lamorde.
The Senate is investigating Lamorde on a petition written against him by one Dr. George Uboh on an alleged diversion of over N1tn recovered from treasury looters by the anti-graft agency.
Uboh, the Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, had petitioned the Senate through the senator representing Delta-North senatorial district, Peter Nwaoboshi.
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