For the third time, the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, failed to appear before the senate committee on ethics, privileges and public petitions.
Lamorde was first scheduled to appear before the committee in August but did not to do so and his absence the second time, on November 17, made the senate threaten to sanction him if he failed to honour its invitation this time around.
Festus Keyamo, a lawyer, who represented Lamorde at the hearing of a petition against the former EFCC boss, last Tuesday, had explained that his client absence was due to some health issues. He had said that Lamorde, who is being accused of diversion of funds, was abroad for medical treatment.
