{"id":69696,"date":"2025-07-04T11:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69696"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:47:55","slug":"court-fines-senator-natasha-%e2%82%a65m-for-contempt-orders-apology-reinstatement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/04\/court-fines-senator-natasha-%e2%82%a65m-for-contempt-orders-apology-reinstatement\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Fines Senator Natasha \u20a65m for Contempt, Orders Apology, Reinstatement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal High Court has found Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central guilty of contempt and ordered her to publicly apologize and pay a \u20a65 million fine to the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>The court directed that the apology be published in two national newspapers and on her official Facebook page within seven days.<\/p>\n<p>In a related ruling, the court also ordered her immediate reinstatement to the Senate, declaring her six-month suspension unlawful and in violation of Section 14(2) of the Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act.<\/p>\n<p>The judge described the Senate\u2019s action as excessive and undemocratic, stressing that constituents should not be denied representation due to internal disciplinary processes.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling underscores both the accountability of lawmakers and the importance of upholding democratic representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Federal High Court has found Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central guilty of contempt and ordered her to publicly apologize and pay a \u20a65 million fine to the Federal Government. The court directed that the apology be published in two national newspapers and on her official Facebook page within seven days. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":69697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-69696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69698,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69696\/revisions\/69698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}