We are Yet to Receive Warrant for Arrest of Lamorde from Senate, Say Nigeria Police

We are Yet to Receive Warrant for Arrest of Lamorde from Senate, Say Nigeria Police

 

The police high command has revealed that  it has not yet received official letter from the Senate to arrest the embattled former Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, over his alleged  involvement in the N2trillion diversion of recovery funds.

The upper chamber had earlier mandated its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to issue a warrant of arrest on Lamorde when he failed to honour invitations extended to him by its investigative panel to appear before it and clear himself of allegations of corruption preferred against him.

The Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, Dr. George Uboh, had petitioned the Senate, accusing the former EFCC boss of diverting over N2 trillion recovered from politicians and other eminent Nigerians who looted the nation’s treasury.

The committee, chaired by Senator Samuel Anyanwu (PDP, Imo East), had recommended that to save the integrity of the Senate and preserve its powers to summon, Lamorde should be compelled to honour its summon through arrest.

Lamorde, through his counsel, Festus Keyamo, had justified why he didn’t honour Senate’s invitation.

The former EFCC boss stated that he has a pending case in court against the decisions of the Senate.

Lamorde, who now wears the rank of a Commissioner of Police, is among the 67 people currently undergoing Senior Executive Course No 38 at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State.

The police high command said up till yesterday, there had not been a letter from the Senate, demanding that Lamorde should be arrested by the police.

Speaking on the case, the Force Spokesperson, Olabisi Kolawole, Assistant Commissioner of Police, said up till yesterday evening, the police was yet to receive such order from the Senate

Although she did not say if the police were arrest a top ranking officer like Lamorde, she insisted that the police was yet to receive warrant of arrest from the legislature.