Senate President Godswill Akpabio, chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Public Petitions at the Nigerian Senate, and other senators of the Nigerian Senate, who played a prominent role in the “illegal” suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan may face visa ban to the United States and other western nations as the senator representing Kogi Central takes her case to the global stage.
At the Women in Parliament session held at the Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting (IPU) at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, Senator Natasha reported her “illegal suspension” and sexual harassment case against Akpabio, seeking justice and the intervention of global democratic institutions.
The lawmaker is asking for justice over what she described as injustice meted out to her.
One global analyst, who did not want to be named, said this may have undeserved consequences for the senate president and his collaborating colleagues, who breached the fundamental rule of fair hearing and exercised powers they did not have, in suspending a senator elected to represent her people at the national Assembly, as constitutional guaranteed.
“Every thing (sanction) is on the table, including visa ban,” he said.
“Western countries take the issue of human and women rights very seriously.”
Meanwhile, after her speech, she expressed worry about her security. The Kogi Central lawmaker claimed there are indications that she may be held against her will in New York for speaking up on the issue at the global event by “the powers that be” from Nigeria.
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