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Reps direct committee to probe EFCC
The lower federal legislative house on Tuesday requested its Committee on Financial crimes to probe the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the non-remittance of court-related forfeited funds and properties worth billions of naira.
The probe followed a motion sponsored by the Minority Leader, Hon. Leo Ogor.
The lawmaker while moving the motion opposed the directive of Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice that EFCC should investigate the Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde.
Justifying the need for the probe, Ogor argued that: “The EFCC is not the only agency of government charged with investigations that bother on diversion of funds by public officers, the EFCC itself cannot be a judge in its own case.”
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According to him, funds worth billions of naira should have been paid into the consolidated revenue fund of the federation as stipulated by section 31(2, 3) of the EFCC establishment Act of 2004.
It would be recall that the EFCC had commissioned KPMG to audit its financial accounts prior to the alleged corruption allegation leveled against Lamorde by Mr George Uboh, a lawmaker, Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems.
Also, on Monday, the Federal Government ordered an immediate probe into an allegation that Mr Lamorde, illegally diverted about N1 trillion, being proceeds of corruption that was recovered by the agency.
FG, through the Federal Ministry of Justice, directed the commission to open investigation into a petition dated September 18, 2015, which was forwarded to the Solicitor-General of the Federation, Mr. Abdullahi Yola, Mr Uboh.
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