A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged fraud relating to a Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) contract.
Mrs Etteh was arrested in Abuja on Tuesday and is being interrogated for allegedly receiving a suspicious N130 million payment from a contractor the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) awarded a solar-powered electrification project in Akwa Ibom State.
According to investigations, 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.
Etteh, the only woman to have been elected into the position, was elected Speaker in 2007 but resigned only after a few months amid allegations of financial misappropriation.
