The Senate summoned the former EFCC boss to account for the fund seized from some alleged corrupt public servants, but rather than honour the invitation of the lawmakers, the former EFCC boss rushed to the court to stop his probe. In a motion ex parte dated March 7, Lamorde, through his counsel, Festus Ukpue, asked the court to stop the Senate from issuing a warrant of arrest on his client pending the hearing and determination of the suit before the court. Justice Kolawole, after listening to the ex parte motion ordered “that a limited order of injunction is, hereby, granted to restrain the defendants pending when they are heard on the reply to the plaintiff’s motion on notice. “That the plaintiff’s counsel is, hereby, directed to obtain a certified true copy of the order in this ruling and shall cause same to be served on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), who shall on the authority of this court’s order, refrain to give any effect to any such warrant, which the defendants may have issued against the plaintiff on the simple judicial principle of lis pendens.” The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions had, on the strength of a petition forwarded to it against Lamorde by one Mr George Uboh, over an alleged N1trillion scam in the agency, summoned both the petitioner and Lamorde to appear before it through separate letters. The fraud allegedly perpetrated by Larmode was said to have dated back to his days as the Director of Operations of the EFCC between 2003 and 2007, as well as an acting chairman of the commission between June 2007 and May 2008, when the then chairman of the anti-graft agency, Nuhu Ribadu, was away for a course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), in Kuru, Jos. Uboh, Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, a security firm, in his petition dated July 31, 2015, accused Lamorde of some specific instances of under-remittance and non-disclosure of proceeds of corruption recovered from criminal suspects, including Balogun and Alamieyeseigha. He assured the Senate that he would produce “overwhelming evidence” to back his claims against Lamorde. The petitioner also alleged that the EFCC had not accounted for “offshore recoveries” and that “over half of the assets seized from suspects are not reflected in EFCC exhibit records.”]]>