Alleged N2tr diversion: Senate resumes probe on Lamorde next week

Fact‎ emerged that Senate has concluded plans to continue with investigation into alleged diversion of N2 trillion by Chairman of Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Lamorde [above] as the anti-graft Boss expected before Senate next week.

Senate had begun the probe of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde over an alleged N1trillion scam inspite of opposition against the move by the PDP Senate caucus and “Unity Forum” Senators.

It could be recalled that the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions had on the strength of petition forwarded to it against Lamorde by one Mr George Uboh over an alleged N1trillion scam in the agency, summoned both the petitioner and Lamorde to appear before it.

However, in media chat with Journalists, Chairman of Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Sam Anyawu ‎ revealed that the Senate refused to delayed the probe until this time because of the tight scheduled of Senate.

He also explained that the procedural error on the petition against Larmode has been ratified by the Senate‎.

According to him, EFCC boss will appear before the Senate next week. The Senate decided to delay the Lamorde probe because of the just concluded ministerial screening. 

Uboh, Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, a security firm, had in his petition dated July 31, 2015, accused Lamorde of some specific instances of under-remittance and non-disclosure of proceeds of corruption recovered from criminal suspects, including Balogun and Alamieyeseigha.

He told the Senate that he would produce “overwhelming evidence” to back his claims against Lamorde.

Uboh also alleged that the EFCC had not accounted for “offshore recoveries” and that “over half of the assets seized from suspects are not reflected in EFCC exhibit records”.

‎Uboh further revealed his findings and interaction with ex-Bayelsa state governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, showed that the amount recovered from the former governor was far more than what the EFCC declared in its reports.

“How can recovery for eight financial years be more than recovery for 11 financial years by over N800bn when the eight financial years are subsumed in the 11 financial years? Why do recoveries for the same years differ on different reports?

“Based on the records, because EFCC has not been able to account for over N800bn, EFCC manipulated the above records and grossly understated recovery in order to conceal the fraud.”

We are ready to produce necessary evidence at the appropriate time,” Uboh told the senate committee.

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