Immediate past Chairman of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, may have been flown abroad for the treatment of undisclosed ailment, The Nation learnt yesterday.
Lamorde, who was scheduled to appear before the Senate
Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions
yesterday, failed to honour the invitation provoking wild
insinuation that he had fled the country to evade Senate
probe of the alleged diversion of N1 trillion leveled against
him.
An activist, Dr. George Ubah, wrote a petition to that Senate
claiming the Lamorde in his capacity as the EFCC Chairman
diverted over N1 trillion recovered by the commission.
Lagos lawyer Festus Keyamo, who stood in for Lamorde,
defended him.
Keyamo said, “He (Lamorde) is still a policeman, he has no
reason to go on exile. Lamorde has served this country very
well and let me tell you this if you don’t know. The only way
to succeed as the chairman of EFCC is for you not to succeed
at all.
“Lamorde is not here today, not out of disrespect to the
committee. It is a matter of complete misunderstanding of
issues at stake. When Lamorde was invited to this
committee, he was invited as chairman of EFCC and between
then and now circumstances had changed.
“He is no longer the chairman of EFCC. So, because of that,
he thought that would be the end of his invitation because
he was invited in that capacity.
“He then handed over the case and traveled for medicals. It
was in his absence that the second letter came and
addressed as the immediate past EFCC chairman. The fact
that he is no longer the chairman, he can no longer be
invited except as a witness.”
The Chairman of the committee, Senator Samuel Anyanwu,
noted that Senate does not accept representation when it
invites anybody to appear before it.
A member of the committee, Senator Obinna Ogba,
wondered why Lamorde failed to live by example being a
man who was a former boss of the anti-graft agency that
usually invited people to appear before it.
He said the non appearance of Lamorde at the probe was an
insult, and disrespect to the Senate.
Senator Tayo Alasoadura, who is also a member of the
committee, said: “We are in a situation whereby people are
showing their shamelessness.”
Alasoadura queried the capacity in which Keyamo was in the
Senate being a lawyer to the EFCC “and the man he claimed
to represent is no longer in office as chairman.”
The Chairman of the committee stopped Keyamo half way
insisting that anybody could be invited by the Senate panel
to come and give evidence.
What followed was hot exchange of words between Keyamo
and members of the committee.
At end Anyanwu insisted that Lamorde should make himself
available on November 24 notwithstanding the plea by
Keyamo that his client would not be available until
December 15.
Keyamo later told reporters that the committee was wrong
to have insisted that Lamorde must appear before it.
He said: “The constitution is very clear as to those who can
be subject to investigation by section 88, 89 of the
constitution. By section 88, 89 of the constitution the Senate
has powers over two categories of persons.
“The first are those who are subject of investigation. They
can be summoned before the committee and the second are
witnesses to appear in respect of that investigation.”

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Let the man attend to his health issues please! Abi no be person wey dey alive dem go probe?



The curse wey we dey rain untop their head sef fit kill them. You hear things like oloshi, oloriburuku, oleeee!, alayebaje, anumanu, onyeoshi, Dan banza!

Get well soon and face the charges before thee.

Yahoo boys are very excited!

If not for senate presidency, Saraki would have long flown abroad.

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I don chance you today!

permsec:
I don chance you today!

lolx . NICE ONE

I can easily tell the next chapter in this story.

pictures of him on the hospital bed with wires and tubes passing out of his body will be released to the public to elicit a response of sympathy, a lá diezani.

then some silly reporter will interview him on his sick bed; more pictures.