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Reps plan to investigate EFCC over alleged unremitted N1tr forfeited assets

By Terhemba Daka, Abuja
28 October 2015   |   2:10 am
THE House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Financial Crimes to investigate the alleged non-remittance of about N1 trillion court-ordered forfeited property and funds by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

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THE House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Financial Crimes to investigate the alleged non-remittance of about N1 trillion court-ordered forfeited property and funds by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Also in a resolution yesterday, the House directed that the Solicitor-General of the Federal Ministry of Justice should re-assign the investigation following the earlier petition by Mr. George Uboh against the Commission to either the ICPC or the Police.

This followed the adoption of a motion brought under matters of urgent public importance by the House Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, who sought urgent investigation into the alleged non-remittances, as he also recalled that there is a subsisting petition by George Uboh against present and past leaders of the EFCC over diversion of funds that the Senate is investigating.

He said that the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, has directed the EFCC to investigate the allegation against Ibrahim Lamorde and to forward the result of its investigation to him, but that “the EFCC is not the only agency of government charged with investigations that bother on diversion of funds by public officers.”

“To thoroughly investigate the allegation of diversion of this huge sum of monies, alleged trillion of naira, other members of staff of the EFCC must be investigated. 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”, he further submitted.

Besides, the House yesterday urged the Federal Government to reintroduce History and Social Studies into primary school curriculum as a way of building children’s historical and governance responsibility sense and leadership.

It urged the ministries of the federal and state governments to make the teaching of History mandatory, especially at secondary school level just as it mandated its Committee on Basic Education and Services to liaise with the Ministry of Education of various tiers of government to review the new Nigerian education policy in order to give prominence to the study of History in the curricula of various schools.

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