- By Halimah Olamide
A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Ibrahim Lamorde has died.
NPO Reports learnt that Lamorde died in Egypt where he had been receiving medical treatment.
He served as the chairman of the anti-graft commission between 2012 and 2015.
Born on 20 December 1962 in Mubi, Adamawa State, Lamorde attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he studied Sociology and graduated 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 in Rijau, Niger State. He then served as Police Public Relations Officer for the Niger State police from 1989 to 1993.
In 1993, he was moved to the Special Fraud Unit of the force where he was saddled with investigations of Advanced Fees fraud.