Senator Natasha cried out for the ongoing harassment of the Senate.
Nigeria News Nalin It is reported that Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Senate Kogi Central, claimed that she has been facing a lot of harassment in the Red Room.
In a telephone interview on a live human rights broadcast program on Abuja’s Human Rights Radio on Friday, federal lawmakers claimed she had been threatened since joining the Senate and was suspending her.
The show’s host, Ahmed Isah, is the regular president’s Ahmed Isah, said Senator Natasha Akpoti-uduaghan The program’s life in the process to articulate the incident involving her and Senate President Godswill Akpabio, on the Senate floor Thursday.
Natasha reluctantly said, “You know there are some rules in this matter, nothing I say in the Senate can use for me, but if I make any statement outside of Chambers, consider To the fact that I am facing a lot of harassment, I have been through a lot of things and I have been quiet because I don’t want to be misinterpreted, I don’t want to file any lawsuits against me, I just want to give me a job opportunity.
“Many of my privileges have been denied and I have withdrawn from many of the international events I have been engaged in, that is, after the “nightclub incident” that happened last year. There is even a UN event that I was supposed to attend, but my The name is considered to be internationally (Senate) in any event that I have been attending has been self-sponsored, and whenever I think internationally is for my constituency, It’s crucial for Nigerian women, and for Nigeria, I bought my own tickets, I funded my own travel, I just don’t talk about it.
“I’ve been through a lot of things, so yesterday (Thursday) a lot. Changing the seat is just a way to silence me or alienate me from being seen. It’s crucial that you get the closer you get to your position near the camera and bring you the There are additional advantages to facilitate debate,” she said.
“Usually I’ve already sat in the back. Actually, I’m sitting in the last seat in front of the door. But then, now I’m suddenly moved without any notification, without any information, my seat was moved to the distance, Is the camera if you sit there, the camera won’t capture part of it, or even get caught, they shrink, you’ll easily miss it, you can raise your hand and no one will call you.
“There are other senators, 109 of us, why is it me, why did I have to move there from there? Just two weeks ago, I was evacuated from the local content committee. I moved there because Some people think I’m using the office to transfer resources north from the Niger Delta, instead, we have the Ajaokuta-kaduna-kano pipeline, which will be completed in the second quarter this year, and we need to feed gasoline for that.” The senator added.
Akpoti-uduaghan clarified that after Nigeria, it is now prompting itself to increase industrial productivity, just like other parts of Nigeria, factories in the north need a larger supply of electricity, and now there are CNG cars, and food gas is needed to make feed gas supply supply supply natural gas. Serving all of these.
However, she added that she would not mention the name, but there is a lot to do in the Senate and she just wants to say she thanks Nigerians for standing up for her.
Regarding the Senate’s plan to suspend, Natasha Akputti-Udoahan said: “I know now, they are planning to suspend, and if I get suspended, it’s fine, that won’t stop me from anywhere where I can Do my work, I have a lot of projects, I will continue to serve my people, and I will continue to be a law-abiding and law-abiding citizen.”
She reiterated that she was not outdated during her confrontation with Senate President Akpabio on Thursday. “Yesterday, I didn’t speak, he was reading my pause, I had to call 10 commands, which is a privilege, which means, ‘I’m going to face the Ethics and Privileges Committee almost like a group, that’s what I do , I had to invoke this order, which is the rights of every senator who believes that his rights have been violated, and that’s what I did. If I didn’t do that, I would be suspended on the floor, so I had to Said to prevent pauses, but I know they are still planning a pause.”
Recall that the female senator and Senate President Akpabio had a dramatic confrontation with sitting arrangements at a plenary meeting on Thursday, a development that led to Akpabio ordering Senator Nata Natasha leaves Chambers.
