This is a case of "bush meat catch the hunter" if truly EFCC is involve in a financial mess and up for a probe, who will probe the Economic and Financial Crime Commission of an offence it's meant to probe?
Please read report from Nigerian Tribune on the issue.
Please read report from Nigerian Tribune on the issue.
THE House of Representatives, on Tuesday resolved to probe an alleged non-remittance of court forfeited properties and funds by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) running into about N1trillion through its committee on financial crimes.
The House equally asked the Solicitor-General of the Federal Ministry of Justice to reassign the investigation of the petition of Mr George Uboh against the EFCC to either the ICPC or the police.
The House resolution was sequel to a motion of urgent matters of national importance, moved by Honourable Leo Ogor, entitled: “Urgent need to investigate the non-remittance of court-forfeited funds and properties by the EFCC into Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation and for other Related Matters.”
While moving the motion, Honourable Ogor maintained that “there is a subsisting petition by Uboh against present and past leaders of the EFCC over the alleged diversion of funds that the Senate is investigating.”
According to him, “the past and present leadership of the EFCC are being accused of diversion of funds worth billions of naira meant to be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, as stipulated by Section 31 subsection 2 and 3 of the EFCC Act of 2004.”
The Minority Leader further said that “the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Justice has directed the EFCC to investigate the allegation against Ibrahim Lamorde and forward the result of its investigation to him,” stressing that “the EFCC is not the only agency of government charged with investigations that border on diversion of funds by public officers.”
To this end, he said “ by the powers conferred on the House by Section 88 (I) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, the House, just like the police and the ICPC, can investigate the diversion of funds by Lamorde, past and present leaders of the EFCC.”
When the motion was put to vote by the Deputy Speaker, Honourable Yussuff Lasun, who presided
over the session, it was unanimously supported by members.
It will be recalled that the Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, a security firm Mr Uboh had, in a petition accused the leadership of EFCC of under-remittance and non-disclosure of proceeds of corruption, recovered from criminal suspects to the tune of N1 trillion.
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