Former anti-graft czar, Ibrahim Lamorde, has passed on at the age of 61 years.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that Mr. Lamorde died in Egypt, where he was said to be receiving medical treatment.
It will be recalled that Lamorde served as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, between 2011 and 2015, while he was a Police officer.
Ibrahim Lamorde joined the Nigerian Police in 1986 and retired as a Deputy Inspector General of Police in 2021.
When the anti-graft agency, EFCC, was created in 2003, Mr. Lamorde was made the pioneer Director of Operations. In December 2007, he took over as Acting Chairman, holding the position until Mrs. Farida Waziri was appointed Chairperson and confirmed by the Senate in June 2008.
In December 2010, Mr. Lamorde returned again to the EFCC as Director of Operations to replace Stephen Otitoju, the then Acting Director of Operations.
Lamorde was appointed again as an acting Chairman of the Commission on November 3, 2011, following the removal of Farida Waziri by President Goodluck Jonathan.
On February 15, 2012, he was confirmed as the third substantive Chairman of the Commission by the Senate.
He held the position until November 9, 2015, when President Buhari replaced him with Ibrahim Magu as the EFCC Chairman in an acting capacity.