{"id":22534,"date":"2025-03-06T18:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22534"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:04:31","slug":"senator-kalu-calls-for-fair-treatment-of-senator-akpoti-uduaghans-aides-amid-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22534","title":{"rendered":"Senator Kalu Calls for Fair Treatment of Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s Aides Amid Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Orji Uzor Kalu (APC, Abia North) has urged the Senate to reconsider withholding the salaries of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s (Kogi Central) aides during her six-month suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended over allegations of misconduct and non-compliance with the chamber\u2019s seating arrangements. As part of the suspension, her salaries, allowances, and security aides were withdrawn, and her office at the National Assembly was shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during plenary, Senator Kalu emphasized that the suspension should not extend to the senator\u2019s aides, as they are employees of the National Assembly and not responsible for her actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot punish Senator Natasha\u2019s aides for an offence they did not commit,\u201d he stated. \u201cThey rely solely on their salaries for survival, and it would be unfair for the Senate to deny them and their families their earnings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kalu, therefore, called for an amendment to the suspension terms, advocating for the continued payment of the affected aides\u2019 salaries throughout the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Orji Uzor Kalu (APC, Abia North) has urged the Senate to reconsider withholding the salaries of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s (Kogi Central) aides during her six-month suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4901,10259,4776,10260,10258,4341],"class_list":["post-22534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-aides","tag-fair-treatment","tag-orji-kalu","tag-senator-akpoti-uduaghan","tag-senator-kalu","tag-suspension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22534"}],"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=22534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22536,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22534\/revisions\/22536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}