Lagos lawyer Festus Keyamo, who stood in for Lamorde, however, defended him thus: “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, in response, noted that the Senate does not accept representation when it invites anybody to appear before it. 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 subsequently stopped Keyamo half way through his presentation, insisting that anybody could be invited by the Senate panel to come and give evidence. Consequently, Keyamo and members of the committee engaged each other in a hot exchange at the end of which 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.


http://www.thecapital.ng/?p=965
http://www.nigerianwatch.com/news/8222-former-efcc-chairman-lamorde-reported-to-have-flown-to-the-uk-for-medical-treatment

This is the same man who did this
Lagos-based lawyer, Festus Keyamo, has asked the National assembly to probe the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and top officials of the corporation for “massive looting of state resources in collusion with some local companies in the oil and gas sector”.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/185240-probe-alison-madueke-nnpc-keyamo-tells-national-assembly.html

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fest us! festus

Festus keyamo!....The dumbest lawyer ever liveth!