Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, yesterday said allegations that he looted about N1 trillion recovered from former Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, former governor of Bayelsa State, late Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, among others, is the handiwork of blackmailers. Lamorde said the blackmailers were recruited by corrupt Nigerians to derail the EFCC.
A statement signed by the Commission’s Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren described Mr. George Uboh, who raised the allegations against Lamorde in a petition to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, as a convicted wire fraudster, who was being prosecuted by the EFCC at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja for alleged “conversion of properties of the Police Equipment Foundation.”
The commission, the statement said, maintained “dignified silence over the past couple of weeks, not because it had anything to hide, but preferred to wait for the report of KPMG, the international audit firm which it commissioned in June 2014 to undertake a forensic audit of the record of exhibits and assets recovered by the commission since the creation of EFCC in 2003.”
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