Afenifere to Senate, AGF: Establish if Natasha lied against Akpabio

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has called connected the Senate and the bureau of the Attorney-General of the Federation to found if legislator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s claims against the Senate president, Senator God’s volition Akpabio is existent oregon not.

The radical made the telephone successful a connection connected Thursday. According to the connection signed by the Afenifere’s National Organising Secretary, Otunba Kole Omololu, it said the information astir the substance needs to beryllium unravelled truthful arsenic to acceptable the records straight.

It said for fairness and justice, the information should beryllium unravelled truthful arsenic to redeem the representation of Nigeria successful the planetary assemblage wherever assorted media and planetary parliament person taken involvement successful the matter.

Recall that legislator Natasha had accused the Senate president of intersexual harassment. Consequently, the Senate had sent her connected a six months suspension for violating legislature rules.

However, aft the expiration of her six months suspension, legislator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has returned to the Senate to proceed her legislative duties.

Recall besides that Afenifere had, months back, urged that the information of the substance beryllium unravelled.

Therefore, with the instrumentality of the senator, the pan-Yoruba radical hss said that the AGF, the Senate and the information agencies successful the state request to look into the substance profoundly to unravel the rela truth.

According to the group, “We, astatine Afenifere, received the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s resoluteness to extremity a six-month suspension it placed connected Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan implicit a proven breach of its Rules of Procedure with mixed feelings. For us, restoring her does not mean we should enactment each her claims down america without subjecting them to judicial interpretation.”

It said portion it welcomed the determination by the Senate to extremity the suspension, it volition not, however, sir and ticker anybody ridicule the hollowed chambers connected the change of immoderate accusation that is not proven.

“We invited this determination due to the fact that it perfectly aligns with a Federal High Court judgement successful Abuja. This attests to the Senate’s and its leadership’s adherence to upholding the regularisation of law, which remains the bastion of our democracy. We frankincense commend the Senate President, His Excellency Senator Godswill Akpabio, and the Senate enactment for taking a determination that further reinforces the country’s regularisation of law.

“Also, we are profoundly acrophobic astir Natasha’s allegations against the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio. It is an contented of nationalist involvement that should not beryllium reduced to the authorities of divergent interests. For implicit six months, wherever are the facts and grounds of her sedate allegations? We are arsenic acrophobic astir her behaviour astatine location and connected the planetary stage, which has sedate implications for the representation of our fatherland.

“For these reasons, the information agencies – the Nigeria Police, Department of State Service (DSS) and National Intelligence Agency (NIA) – person the onus to look deeper into each claims Natasha made some locally and internationally to unearth the truth.

“First, is her intersexual harassment assertion true? We recognize this substance is already being considered by the Court. It is simply a trite instrumentality that helium who alleges bears the load of making retired a prima facie lawsuit successful enactment of his averments. We, thus, impulse the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation to prosecute this lawsuit with owed diligence and purely successful the involvement of justice.

“Secondly, we enactment that Natasha had antecedently been proven to person made mendacious intersexual harassment allegations against erstwhile Presidential spokesperson Reno Omokri, for which Mr. Omokri was paid damages arsenic an out-of-court settlement. Does this not suggest that, without proof, her allegations against Akpabio are suspicious?

“Thirdly, we enactment her onslaught connected Senate President Akpabio, calling him a dictator, and inquire Nigerians to instrumentality enactment of that and inquire themselves what much autocratic behaviour tin determination beryllium than of a pistillate who makes specified weighty allegations of intersexual harassment, arsenic Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan has made against the Senate President, yet refuses to nutrient adjacent a scintilla of grounds much than six months aft the said allegation, yet expects the Nigerian public, judiciary and the Senate to crook to her...