Ex-EFCC boss, Lamorde, heads SFU

Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has been redeployed as the commissioner of police in charge of the Special Fraud Units (SFU), Milverton, Ikoyi, Lagos State.
Lamorde was among some commissioners of police redeployed to different police departments on Monday.

Incidentally, this wouldn’t be the first time Lamorde would be at SFU. In 1993, Lamorde was appointed as officer of the SFU, serving in the unit charged with investigating advance-fee fraud until 2002. A police source said that Lamorde took over immediately as the SFU commissioner of police on Monday.
“While Lamorde takes over as CP SFU, Mr. Ayo Francis Akinsanmi, a commissioner of police, takes over as CP in charge of the Force Armament. Mr. Kenneth Ebrimson is now the commissioner of police in charge of Marine Police. Both Akinsanmi and Ebrimson are newly promoted commissioners of police,” the officer said. Lamorde was appointed acting Chairman of the EFCC on November 23, 2011 after Hajia Farida Waziri left office during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He was confirmed as chairman of the EFCC on February 15, 2012 by the Senate. While in the SFU, from 2000 to 2001, he was seconded to the United Nations Civilian Police in the Ermera District of East Timor as a Chief Investigation Officer. Lamorde was a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Oyo State before being redeployed to the Force Headquarters in Abuja.

He attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, graduating with a BA in Sociology in 1984. He joined the Nigerian police in 1986, and from 1987 to 1988 worked at the Niger State Police Command in Minna. From 1988 to 1989, he was Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) in Rijau, Niger State. He then served as Police Public Relations Officer for the Niger State Police from 1989 to 1993.

When the EFCC was created in 2003, headed by Nuhu Ribadu, Lamorde was made Director of Operations.

In December 2007,  Ribadu was removed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. Lamorde took over as Acting Chairman in January 2008, holding this position until Waziri was appointed Chairperson in May 2008. He was then posted to Ningi in Bauchi State.

In December 2010, Lamorde returned to the EFCC, again as Director of Operations. When Waziri was dismissed on November 23, 2011, Lamorde, then an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), was again appointed Acting Chairman. Lamorde was confirmed as substantive Chairman of the EFCC on 15 February 2012.

On November 9, 2015, Buhari sacked Lamorde, replacing him with Ibrahim Magu as the Acting Chairman, EFCC. Lamorde was at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Jos, before his appointment to SFU.