Members on Monday appeared divided over
the planned probe of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, over alleged diversion of stolen funds
recovered from looters.
While the Senate leadership said the
probe would proceed as scheduled on Wednesday (tomorrow), members of the
Peoples Democratic Party in the upper federal legislative chamber
kicked against the probe.
The EFCC boss, according to a petition
before the Senate, has been accused of diverting N1tn said to have been
recovered from a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye
Alamieyeseigha; and a former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun.
The petitioner, Dr. George Uboh, who is
the Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, had
petitioned the Senate through the senator representing his Delta North
constituency, Peter Nwaoboshi, alleging that Lamorde, in connivance with
other EFCC officials, short-changed the Federal Government in the
remittance of funds and properties recovered from Alamieyeseigha and
Balogun.
The probe of the EFCC boss by the Senate
Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has been scheduled
to begin on Wednesday (tomorrow).
After an earlier arguments over the
propriety of the investigation by the Senate, the PDP senators later in a
statement signed by the Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio; his
deputy, Emmanuel Bwacha; Minority Whip, Philip Aduda; and his deputy,
Biodun Olujimi, rejected the planned probe.
source:Punch
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