The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public
Petition has received documents tended as evidence by the anti-graft agency,
over allegations of fraudulent diversion of over N1 trillion by the Chairman of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),
Ibrahim Lamorde.
At the opening session of the hearing, which commenced in
the National Assembly, the petitioner, George Uboh, said that over 95 per cent of
overseas seizures by the agency were also diverted, including the loot
recovered from a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; and
former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun.
The EFCC boss was
not present to state his own side as the commission had written to the
committee to ask to be allowed more time to gather relevant documents and given
another date to appear before the committee to answer to the petition.
An official of the
anti-graft agency, who was present at the event however, questioned the
propriety of the committee, saying the petitioner should not have been allowed
to present his case in the absence of the committee.
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