Human rights attorney, Femi Falana, has warned in opposition to any legit probe by way of safety businesses into how suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, was once ready to wait the Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly in Fresh York.
In a remark on Sunday, the Senior Suggest of Nigeria stated any probe by way of safety businesses may just deliver “needless embarrassment and undeserved ridicule” to the rustic.
PUNCH On-line reviews that Akpoti-Uduaghan spoke on the IPU assembly on March 11 about her postponed from the Senate for improper misconduct.
The lawmaker said that her postponed was once designed to quietness her over the sexual harassment allegations levelled in opposition to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
Reacting at the ground of the Senate on Tuesday, Akpabio said that the Kogi senator’s movements on the IPU assembly humiliated the federal government and public of Nigeria.
A file emerged on Sunday that the Branch of Shape Services and products and the Nationwide Perception Company have introduced a probe into how the Kogi senator attended the IPU assembly with out an legit nomination.
However Falana warned that the investigation would embarrass some manage officers of the Bola Tinubu management.
The remark reads in portions, “In the end, it’s nation wisdom that the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio had accused Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of embarrassing the federal government and public of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by way of reporting her postponed by way of the senate to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
“Opposite to the jaundiced perspectives of the senate chief, it’s the legit probe of the instances of her commute by way of safety forces that can divulge Nigeria to useless embarrassment and undeserved ridicule
“Subsequently, the SSS and NIA might find out about the file of the investigation of our unlawful travelling by way of the Sani Abacha army junta earlier than embarking at the futile effort to probe Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for having the temerity to externalise the “inner affair of the Senate.
“In fact, the probe will particularly embarrass some top officials of the Bola Tinubu administration who were once accused of travelling out of Nigeria to embarrass the defunct military junta.”