Court stops Senate, IGP from arresting Lamorde

Federal High Court, Abuja has restrained the Senate and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, from arresting Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde.

Mr. Lamorde was the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Lamorde is being sought by the Senate over his alleged diversion of N1 trillion recovered from corrupt government officials.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole issued the order on the basis of an ex-parte motion Lamorde filed before the court through his lawyer, Mr. Festus Ukpue.

The former EFCC boss had, in the application dated March 7, pleaded the court to stop the Senate from issuing a warrant of arrest for his arrest, pending the hearing and determination of a substantive suit he lodged before the court.

Lamorde was earlier summoned by the Senate to account for funds the anti-graft agency, under his leadership, seized from some alleged corrupt public office holders.

The funds were said to have been re-looted, with no concrete record kept on how it was remitted or utilised.

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