By Tonye Clinton Jaja
On a lighter note!!!
About a week ago, in an article that I wrote, that was published by the Law and Society newspaper, I advised the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that the penalty of suspension was insufficient for Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan!!!
I advised the Senate to impose additional penalties upon Senator Natasha such as involving the Hisbah Police (the police in charge of enforcing moral values within Northern Nigeria, Natasha is from Kogi State which is within northern Nigeria) to confiscate all the “pancakes and transparent outfits” of Natasha!!!
I also advised that the Senate ought to make it mandatory for Natasha to undergo a mandatory legislative procedures course or study visit to the Parliament of South Africa or any other European country as part of this period of her six months of suspension!!!
Nobody listened to me!!!
Now Natasha has escaped, and like a loose bird (or more appropriately like a loose canon) she is singing like a canary at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) event in New York and other fora!!!
According to her, she spoke at a
“United Nations. Inter-parliamentary Union event is a side program. I spoke at the United Nations complex in New York”.
There she gave an Oscar winning performance and speech (coupled with a couple of”crocodile” tears) where she alleged that she in particular and”Nigerian women” in general are victims of illegal suspension and sexual harassment!!!
Meanwhile, it is on record that Senator Ita-Giwa, Senator Biodun Olujimi (that sponsored the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill GEOB in the 8th and 9th Senate) and Senator Ireti Kinigbe have bluntly disassociated themselves from Natasha’s allegations of sexual harassment!!!
According to Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, there is no such thing as sexual harassment within the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In fact, according to her, it was even the females that harassed the male folk and she had to go round “comforting” her male counterparts during her time as a senator because they faced all kinds of challenges!!!
Although, she didn’t specify the kinds of “comfort” she used to offer those over-stressed Senators, whether it was oral therapy (ORT) or massage, or just words of admonition!!!
In order not to be accused of misquoting her, let me reproduce the report in LEADERSHIP newspaper as follows below:
“Former Presidential Adviser and former federal lawmaker, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, has dismissed claims of sexual harassment at the level of National Assembly, saying making such accusations by a female Senator was a sign of weakness.
She stated that once a woman attained the position of Senator, she can no longer be a victim of sexual harassment.”
In the words of Mrs. Akpabio, her husband, the Senator President, is a joker, who like to crack jokes by making light of any situation which makes a lot of people to misunderstand him.
So when he told Natasha, “if you take care of me and make me happy, then, I will make you happy at the Senate and allow you to move your Motion about Ajaokuta Steel company”, Akpabio was only joking!!!
It was Natasha’s depraved, over-zealous sexually inclined mind that translated that innocuous comment as a sexual innuendo!!!
Natasha must either be a nymphomania that is why anything a male colleague Senator makes an innocent comment directed at her, she quickly interprets it as a sexual innuendo!!!
Alternatively, it could be that Natasha needs to undergo a Nigerian sensitivity and acculturisation training for her to properly understand both the rules and culture of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!!!
It appears that Natasha’s bloodline from Ukraine is affecting her!!!
She is not quite a full blooded Nigerian that is why she is facing this culture-shock at the Senate!!!
That is why she is repulsed and labelling as sexual harassment the very same things that ordinary Nigerian women have been tolerating and “collecting” from Senators for years since 1999!!!
You don’t blame her, maybe she was born with a”silver-spoon” in her mouth and didn’t have to hustle in Nigeria like the other Nigerian women!!!
Apart from her reporting the Senate President at the IPU, I have it on good authority that while she is still in the United States of America (USA) she plans to also report Senator Neda, and Gbaja to the FBI regarding the issue of their professional misconduct of embezzlement of clients funds when they were lawyers in the USA.
And I hear that she plans to travel to Chicago and sort out the issue of the credentials once-and-all-time!!!
The way this Natasha is acting, it is obvious that she is not a patriotic Nigerian, why don’t we just commence extradition processes against her and send her back to her mother’s country Ukraine!!!!
Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja,
Executive Director,
Nigerian Law Society (NLS).
