Former Speaker in the House of Representatives, Chibudum Nwuche, was
yesterday detained by the EFCC for allegedly being involved in a N5.6
billion amnesty contract scam.
Uwuche, who served as deputy speaker from 1999 to 2003, is alleged to
have collected three contracts totaling N5.6 billion from the office of
the former Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Kingsley
Kuku who served during Jonathan’s administration.
EFCC sources say Nwuche, through his company,
Foundation for Youth Development, had collected the money in the guise
of sending some of the Niger Delta Militants to Malaysia for training
which he allegedly never did.
The former deputy speaker had gone to the antigraft agency’s head office
to honor their invitation but was not released after much questioning.
He will be further questioned today July 26th.