EXCLUSIVE: Former Speaker of the House of Reps arrested, detained

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Mrs Etteh was removed from her leadership position in the House of Representatives in October 2007 after her colleagues accused her of contract fraud.

has arrested and detained a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report.

Investigators are now saying weeks after the contractor was paid the mobilisation fee for the project, N130 million was transferred to Mrs Etteh who is neither a director nor a shareholder of the company on record. The EFCC is also suspicious that the contractor did not execute the contract after payment was received.

Barely four months after she was elected Speaker of the House, her colleagues turned on her and demanded that she step down from her exalted position following accusations of corruption.

 

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COCOPACOPIACO1 Nigeria is a joke

We don't need all these stories but actions is what matters alot, perhaps the stealing where is the money going to after ceased from them.

You see all these arrest, we are not move by them. The outcome of these actions is what matter to us perhaps, he's yet to play the game by the rule afterwards it will be swept under carpet.

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Diezani Alison-Madueke story is no more flying and EFCC need to balance the gender on the corruption and arrest. This is where Etteh comes in. Moreover, Diezani is not in the country. Nobody to look up to in dis country,,all our leaders are scammers 💔 Is this current news or something from the archive?
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