Post by goodgovernance on Aug 27, 2015 6:51:22 GMT
ABUJA — THE Senate, yesterday, was palpably in disarray over the bid to probe the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over failure to remit more than N2.05 trillion, being funds recovered from corrupt former leaders.
Senators under the Unity Forum of the ruling APC kicked against the ongoing probe of Lamorde, describing the process as illegal and a breach of the Senate’s Standing Orders.
Further, Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio unsettled both the anti-graft agency and the Senate when he wrote a letter to the National Assembly leadership, dissociating himself and other PDP senators from the moves to probe Lamorde, over allegation that he diverted N1 trillion from funds recovered from corrupt officials.
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The Senate
The Senate
There was also a dramatic twist as the Senate committee was told that Lamorde failed to remit N2.051 trillion to the federation account apart from diverting more than one trillion naira recovered by the anti-graft agency.
Defending his petition against the EFCC and Lamorde, Chief Executive Officer, Panic Alert Security Systems, PASS, Dr. George Uboh, asked the Senate to get Lamorde arrested for failing to remit the money which the EFCC recovered between 2004 and 2013.
Uboh also asked the Senate to compel Access Bank to bring complete and unadulterated statements of EFCC from 2004 till date as well as force Aminu Ibrahim and Co, (Auditors) to shed light on the discrepancies.
Coming on a day Lamorde failed to appear before the Senate’s Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions Committee as speculated and his emissaries sent away by the committee, there was also rumpus as members of All Progressives Congress (APC) Unity Forum in the Senate kicked against the Senate committee’s probe of the EFCC chairman.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus led by Senator Godswill Akpabio had on Monday distanced itself from the exercise. Akpabio said in a four-paragraph letter, which was jointly signed by the PDP Senate caucus leaders that it was inappropriate for the Senator Samuel Anyanwu-led committee to invite Lamorde to appear before it, since such steps in the past did not produce any result.
EFCC may postpone Akpabio’s invitation over alleged graft
At the EFCC, Vanguard gathered that Akpabio’s press statement distancing the PDP caucus from Lamorde’s probe is causing confusion and EFCC’s move to probe the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State may hit the rocks.
According to records at the EFCC, Akpabio is scheduled to appear before the commission’s investigators to answer questions arising from series of petitions against him by an Abuja-based Akwa Ibom State-born lawyer, Leo Ekpenyong and Associates, that he abused his position as governor and used the proceeds to build sprawling estates in many parts of the country.
- See more at: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/alleged-unremitted-n2-051trn-senate-in-disarray-over-efcc-probe/#sthash.oKHt1cSl.dpuf
- See more at: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/alleged-unremitted-n2-051trn-senate-in-disarray-over-efcc-probe/#sthash.oKHt1cSl.dpuf
Senators under the Unity Forum of the ruling APC kicked against the ongoing probe of Lamorde, describing the process as illegal and a breach of the Senate’s Standing Orders.
Further, Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio unsettled both the anti-graft agency and the Senate when he wrote a letter to the National Assembly leadership, dissociating himself and other PDP senators from the moves to probe Lamorde, over allegation that he diverted N1 trillion from funds recovered from corrupt officials.
.
The Senate
The Senate
There was also a dramatic twist as the Senate committee was told that Lamorde failed to remit N2.051 trillion to the federation account apart from diverting more than one trillion naira recovered by the anti-graft agency.
Defending his petition against the EFCC and Lamorde, Chief Executive Officer, Panic Alert Security Systems, PASS, Dr. George Uboh, asked the Senate to get Lamorde arrested for failing to remit the money which the EFCC recovered between 2004 and 2013.
Uboh also asked the Senate to compel Access Bank to bring complete and unadulterated statements of EFCC from 2004 till date as well as force Aminu Ibrahim and Co, (Auditors) to shed light on the discrepancies.
Coming on a day Lamorde failed to appear before the Senate’s Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions Committee as speculated and his emissaries sent away by the committee, there was also rumpus as members of All Progressives Congress (APC) Unity Forum in the Senate kicked against the Senate committee’s probe of the EFCC chairman.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus led by Senator Godswill Akpabio had on Monday distanced itself from the exercise. Akpabio said in a four-paragraph letter, which was jointly signed by the PDP Senate caucus leaders that it was inappropriate for the Senator Samuel Anyanwu-led committee to invite Lamorde to appear before it, since such steps in the past did not produce any result.
EFCC may postpone Akpabio’s invitation over alleged graft
At the EFCC, Vanguard gathered that Akpabio’s press statement distancing the PDP caucus from Lamorde’s probe is causing confusion and EFCC’s move to probe the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State may hit the rocks.
According to records at the EFCC, Akpabio is scheduled to appear before the commission’s investigators to answer questions arising from series of petitions against him by an Abuja-based Akwa Ibom State-born lawyer, Leo Ekpenyong and Associates, that he abused his position as governor and used the proceeds to build sprawling estates in many parts of the country.
- See more at: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/alleged-unremitted-n2-051trn-senate-in-disarray-over-efcc-probe/#sthash.oKHt1cSl.dpuf
- See more at: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/alleged-unremitted-n2-051trn-senate-in-disarray-over-efcc-probe/#sthash.oKHt1cSl.dpuf