Court stops Senate from probing Natasha over sexual harassment allegations

The federal high court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday restrained the Nigerian senate led by the senate committee on ethics, privileges, and public petitions from conducting disciplinary proceedings against Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

Obiora Egwuatu, the presiding judge, gave the order following an ex parte application filed by counsels to Akpoti-Uduaghan, the senator representing Kogi Central.

Akpoti-Uduaghan had been invited to appear before the senate’s disciplinary committee following an altercation with Senate President Godswill Akpabio on February 20.

Akpoti-Uduaghan had disrupted the plenary by rejecting her assigned seat, defying Akpabio’s order, and repeatedly raising a point of order despite being overruled.

Subsequently, the senate referred Akpoti-Uduaghan to the committee on ethics, privileges, and public petitions for disciplinary review.

On February 28, in an interview on Arise TV, the Kogi senator alleged that her trouble in the senate began after she rejected sexual advances from the senate president.

Source: TheCable