Harassment saga: Natasha’s allegation against Akpabio not before Senate — Spokesperson

The Senate spokesperson, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, has stated that the sexual harassment allegation raised by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against Senate President Godswill Akpabio is not before the Senate.

While speaking on Arise TV’s Morning Show on Monday, Adaramodu clarified that the only case currently under the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petition concerns Akpoti-Uduaghan’s alleged non-compliance with the Senate’s standing orders.

He said, “The only matter before the Senate is between Senator Natasha and the rest of the senators, that she is not complying with the standing orders of the Senate. No other issues.”

Addressing the possibility of future complaints, Adaramodu emphasised that the committee would handle any matter referred to it, describing it as an internal affair of the Senate.

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“Then, if there is anything that comes tomorrow about any senator in the National Assembly, the ethics, privileges and public petition committee will review once it is referred to them. It is going to be taken as an internal affair.

“In the hallowed chamber, whatever we do or say is not actionable in the court, so because of that, the committee will treat the issue as it comes.

“The Senate does not run the committee with senators. The Senate President does not even run with its members. It is an independent committee,” he said.

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