The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, yesterday came out to deny the allegation that an estimated N1 trillion the anti-graft agency recovered under his leadership from looters were diverted. He insisted that the accusation was a deliberate attempt to smear his reputation.
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, had on Wednesday, began investigative hearing on a petition by Dr. George Uboh, who made the allegation of diversion of recovered proceeds of corruption against the EFCC boss.
But speaking in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Lamorde wondered how possible it was for the Commission to divert what it does not have and consequently asked that the petition “should not be taken seriously”.
It would be recalled that the EFCC had, in a statement on August 24, stated among other things, that: “Even if the EFCC had not returned a kobo of recovered assets in its 12 years existence in addition to the yearly appropriated funds from the federation account, it will be nowhere near a trillion naira.
“This clearly exposes the mission of the socalled petitioner as nothing more than mischief, designed to smear Lamorde,” the statement noted.
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