Jonathan sacks Waziri,names Lamorde new EFCC boss

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President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri and named Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde as the Acting Chairman/Chief Executive of the Commission.

No reason was given by the president's office for Farida Waziri's dismissal.Her removal was contained in a three-paragraph statement signed by President Jonathan's spokesperson, Dr. Reuben Abati in Abuja on Wednesday morning.

 

Lamorde was among the effective team of the former chairman of the commission, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu.

According to a statement issued by the president spokesman Dr. Reuben

Abati, the appointment takes immediate effect.

Mrs. Waziri was appointed EFCC Chairman by Late President Umaru Musa

Yar'Adua on May 18, 2008 and confirmed by the Senate on May 27, 2008.  Mr. Lamorde, an officer of the Nigeria Police, was, until this appointment the Director of Operations of the EFCC. He was also Acting. Chairman of the EFCC before Mrs. Waziri assumed duty at the Commission.

Her predecessor at the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, was removed midway through his term in 2007 not long after Umaru Yar'Adua became president.

The EFCC was set up in 2002, three years after the end of military rule by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The Guardian