Senate To Resume Probe Of EFCC Chairman

The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde will next week know his fate over allegation of corruption leveled against him by a petition brought to the Senate by Dr. George Uboh. He noted that the initial resumption of the probe fell within the annual recess of the National Assembly as such it was impossible to have probed Lamorde during those period. The committee chairman further added that after the resumption of the long holiday, the Senate was faced with the task of screening and confirming ministerial nominees. The Senate’s ethnic committee first sat on the petition on August 26, when Uboh presented his petition to senators. The petitioner had alleged that the EFCC’s boss diverted fund recovered from corrupt past government officials and did not fully return to the coffer of the federal government assets recovered from politicians that looted state’s fund. In a related development, the EFCC had begun the trial of Uboh, on the allegation that he sold vehicles belonging to Police Equipment Foundation in 2007. He is on trial for an alleged fraud on a three-count charge before Justice S.A Aladetoyinbo of Abuja High Court.