Senate won’t probe sexual harassment allegation against Akpabio

The Senate said on Sunday that it won’t investigate allegation of sexual harassment made against its president, Godswill Akpabio, by the Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

Spokesman to the Senate, Yemi Adaramodu, who disclosed this in an interview with journalists Sunday evening, said there is no petition before the Senate regarding sexual harassment and as such it won’t jump into the matter.

He said the only matter that would be investigated is tge allegation of breach of the Senate rule by Natasha.

He said: “There is no allegation before the Senate. There is none from anybody for that matter. So we don’t pick allegations on television screens or from social media. Nobody has lodged any allegation with anybody or anyone in the Senate.

“So the only issue that is on ground is the breach of the Standing Orders which has been referred to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct and Public Petitions.

“And I don’t think there’s any other petition or any other complaint before the head committee.”

According to Adaramodu, unless anybody brings anything up. So it will be dealt with accordingly. So, for now there is none other than the one that we have referred to.

“So, we can be hearing so many things from outside, but within the Senate, no allegation against anybody, no complaints from anybody and no case has been presented to us,” he stressed.

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