DPP denies signing letter to investigate Lamorde

The Director of Public Prosecution, Federal Ministry of Justice,
Mr Mohammed Diri, has denied signing any letter directing the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate its
Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde.
Diri told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that he did not sign
such letter on behalf of the ministry.
He said, “I didn’t sign any document to investigate anybody.”On whether the ministry was interested in investigating the
allegation, Diri said, “I am not competent enough to comment
on that.
“The only question I can answer is that I did not sign any paper
against the backdrop of the media report.”
In a related development, the ministry’s Spokesman, Mr Charles
Nwodo, has also described the media report as ‘erroneous and
misleading’.
Nwodo, however, acknowledged that the ministry received a
petition against Lamorde and other top EFCC officials on
diversion of proceeds of corruption.
He said the ministry forwarded the petition written by one
George Uboh, to the EFCC boss for his response “as required by
the rules of public service and constitutional right to fair
hearing.”
A media report had said that the Federal Government had
directed the EFCC to investigate Lamorde for allegedly diverting
about one trillion naira proceeds of corruption recovered by the
EFCC.
Sequel to the report, the House of Representatives had on
Tuesday debated the matter and flawed the procedure that EFCC
should investigate its boss while in office.
The Minority Leader of the house, Rep. Leo Ogor, had raised the
issue under matters of urgent public importance.
The house had said that money and other recovered assets had
been held by the anti-graft agency, as against the requirement
of the law that such assets be remitted to government.
It noted that the EFCC could not be a ‘judge in its own case’ by
investigating the circumstances surrounding the non-remittance
of the funds.
The house directed its Committee on Financial Crimes to take
over the investigation from the EFCC for “a thorough and proper
investigation”.
In the alternative, the house had called on the Solicitor-General
of the Federation to re-assign the investigation to either the
Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences
Commission or the Nigeria Police.

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