A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has restrained the Senate from going ahead with the probe of former Chairman of the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, over an alleged N1tr scam.
The fraud was allegedly perpetrated when Lamorde was the Director of Operations of the EFCC between 2003 and 2007, as well as an acting Chairman of the between June 2007 and May 2008, when the then chairman, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, was away for a course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos.
Uboh, Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, a security firm, in his petition dated July 31, 2015, accused Lamorde of some under-remittance and non-disclosure of proceeds of corruption recovered from criminal suspects.
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