Five years after serving as the first female Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Hon. Patricia Etteh, has returned to school to study
law, Premium Times reports.
According to the online medium, Etteh is currently enrolled at
the prestigious University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom and she is
expected to emerge with a Bachelor of Law degree in 2014. She was said to have
begun the university’s two-year undergraduate law programme in September 2012.
The online medium also quoted the former ‘Madam Speaker’ as
saying that her return to school was part of her private life and declined to
share what motivated her to return to school.
Ettehhad barely spent four months as the then fourth
mostpowerful individual in the country when she was forced to step down from
her leadership position of the House following aheated scandal over the
renovation of her official residence in October 2007, in which some of her
colleagues accused her of alleged involvement in corrupt practice.
According to Hon David Idoko-led report, the speaker signed off
on a contract that would lead to the spending of N628million for the renovation
of her official home and that of her deputy as well as the purchase of 12
official vehicles, a figure considered highly inflated at the time.
The lawmakers, spearheaded by the Farouk
Lawan-ledIntegrity Group, insisted that the award of the contract did not
follow due process.Lawan is himself currently remanded in prison custody,
facing trial for alleged bribe taking during his committee’s probe of the fuel
subsidy regime.
Source: Leadership
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