Ibrahim Lamorde, a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is dead.
This newspaper understands Lamorde died around 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, he reportedly developed complications three days later and died, family sources told TheCable.
Lamorde was the EFCC chairman between 2012 and 2015.
He was appointed in an acting capacity as chairman of the anti-graft agency on November 23, 2011 following the removal of Farida Waziri by then President Goodluck Jonathan.
