Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, will Tuesday, July 16, 2013, appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes which is conducting a public hearing to determine the status of assets seized or recovered by the EFCC since inception.
The commission media office said, though Lamorde was scheduled to appear before the committee on Monday, he was unable to do so due to some prior commitment.
He, however, sent a letter of apology to the Committee. The letter was delivered by a team of top EFCC management staff led by the Director of Finance and Accounts, Bukar Abba.
The team told the Committee that the EFCC boss travelled to Lagos for an earlier scheduled appointment and therefore pleaded with the Committee to allow him appear at another date.
Bukar told the House Committee led by its chairman, Jagaba Adams Jagaba, that their boss holds the Committee in high esteem and would be ready to appear before it as soon as he returns to Abuja.
Consequently the Committee therefore directs that the EFCC chairman appears before on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) who also appeared before the committee gave a brief narrative of the relationship between his agency and EFCC.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) who also appeared before the committee gave a brief narrative of the relationship between his agency and EFCC.
He said from 2006 to date, his agency handed over a total of 70 cases involving money laundering to the anti-graft agency to investigate with over $2million genuine currency notes and $7million fake notes involved.
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