Natasha guilty of contempt-Court
…lifts Natasha from Suspension
Suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has been found guilty of contempt by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
The lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, guilty of flouting court order.
The Federal High court, in a ruling delivered by Justice Binta Nyako, noted that the embattled lawmaker went against its order by publishing a satirical apology to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
It held that the said apology, which she published on her Facebook page on April 7, made a mockery of a gag order that had been placed on the parties by the court.
Consequently, the court ordered Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan to, within seven days, publish an apology to it in two national dailies and also on her Facebook page.
The court equally ordered her to pay a N5 million fine, stressing that her contempt was in a civil proceeding.
Even though the court’s decision followed a contempt action initiated by Senator Akpabio, it declined to issue any order in his favour.
Meanwhile, the court has ordered Akpabio to reinstate the suspended senator immediately.
It quashed the suspension on the ground that it was illegal.
The court case began after Natasha was suspended following her refusal to accept reallocation of seat in the upper chamber of the parliament.
She later accused the Senate President of sexual harassment.
