Meet the New Anti-graft Czar...

THIS DAY

Meet the New Anti-graft Czar...

01.14.2008

His name is Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi Lamorde. You probably knew him as the dreaded Director of Operations, Eco-nomic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Hen-ceforth, at least till Mallam Nuhu Ribadu returns from his study leave, Lamorde will be the face of the anti-corruption war in Nigeria.

Following Ribadu�s forced leave for a one-year senior officers� course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State, Lamorde was appointed the acting Executive Chairman of EFCC via an announcement from the Presidency at the weekend.
Lamorde, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), has over 20 years continuous training and experience in policing and management.
Lamorde, 45, joined the Nigeria Police in 1986, after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1984.

He served at the Niger State Police Command between 1987 and 1988 in Minna.  He was Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) in Rijau, Niger State, between 1988 and 1989 and served as Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Niger State Command for four years.

Lamorde was a pioneer officer of the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police, created in 1993. He served in the premier anti-419 corps of the Nigeria Police until 2002. While still an officer of the SFU, he was deployed as Chief Investigation Officer of Ermera District of East Timor of the United Nations Civilian Police where he served between 2000 and 2001. 

He was briefly Divisional Police Officer, Ojo, Ibadan, Oyo State and was later deployed in the Force Headquarters, Abuja, from where he was seconded as a pioneer officer and Director of Operations of the EFCC.

In the global pursuit of criminals, Lamorde has worked effectively with other government law enforcement agencies around the world, including the FBI, Metropolitan Police, US Postal Inspection Services (USPIS), Internet Crime Complaints Centre (IC3), the Dutch Police, German Police and the South African Police, among others.

Lamorde, a Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) and Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), has attended several international training programmes, seminars and workshops where he delivered papers on the Nigerian fight against corruption, Advance Fee Fraud and other forms of economic and financial crimes.  He also attended a Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies course at the Harvard University in 2005