Former Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, is dead.
Premium Times first reported the death of 61-year- old retired Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in Egypt on Sunday
TheCable also reports that Lamorde died at about 3am local time in Cairo, Egypt, three days after undergoing a surgery.
Family sources said he was in Cairo on a different issue but decided to run a routine medical checkup.
The doctors reportedly picked up an ailment and advised him to do a surgery.
Although the surgery was deemed successful, Lamorde was said to have developed complications three days later and died
The late Lamorde was the EFCC Chairman between 2012 and 2015.
He was appointed in an acting capacity as the EFCC boss on November 23, 2011 following the removal of Farida Waziri by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Lamorde was later confirmed as the third substantive Chairman of the EFCC by the Senate on February 15, 2012.
The retired DIG was born on December 20, 1962, in Mubi, Adamawa State and attended Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria.
He later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology in 1984.
He joined the Nigeria Police Force in 1986 and retired as a DIG.
It is instructive to note that the late Lamorde was the pioneer Director of Operations (DOPS) when the EFCC was created in 2003 by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Lamorde later became the acting chairman of the commission in January 2008 after the regime of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua removed the pioneer Chairman of the EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
He occupied the position until Farida Waziri was appointed as EFCC boss and later confirmed by the Senate in June 2008.
He later returned to the EFCC in 2010 as director of operations, replacing Stephen Otitoju.
Lamorde, who was at the time an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), was again appointed acting chairman of the EFCC on November 23, 2011
He was later made the substantive executive chairman of the EFCC on February 15, 2012, a position he held until November 9, 2015, when former President Muhammadu Buhari replaced him with AIG Ibrahim Magu (rtd).
