{"id":22494,"date":"2025-03-06T13:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22494"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:57:56","slug":"senate-suspends-senator-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan-for-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22494","title":{"rendered":"Senate Suspends Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for Six Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Senate has suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for six months following her sexual harassment allegation against Senate President Godswill Akpabio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The decision came after the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions recommended her suspension on Thursday, March 6, 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">As part of the disciplinary action, Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s salary and security details will be withdrawn throughout the suspension period. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The committee also ruled that she must not be seen within the National Assembly premises during this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Her suspension stems from the controversy surrounding her formal petition accusing Akpabio of misconduct. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, had submitted the petition before the Senate, sparking a dispute that led to this disciplinary measure.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for six months following her sexual harassment allegation against Senate President Godswill Akpabio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[300,10235,10236,9114],"class_list":["post-22494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-senate","tag-senator-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan","tag-six-months","tag-suspends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22496,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22494\/revisions\/22496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}