{"id":12807,"date":"2025-03-06T14:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=12807"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:23:12","slug":"12807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/12807\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Natasha suspended for six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for six months amid the sexual harassment allegation she levied against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions recommended her suspension on Thursday, March 6, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>During the period of the suspension, the committee stated that her salary and security details will be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>The committee also recommended that Senator Natasha should not be seen anywhere around the National Assembly during her suspension period.<\/p>\n<p>Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s suspension stems from a controversy surrounding her sexual harassment allegation against Senate President Godswill Akpabio.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute began when Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central, formally accused Akpabio of misconduct, submitting a petition before the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for six months amid the sexual harassment allegation she levied against the Senate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12810,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807\/revisions\/12810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}