NASS Resumption: ‘Natasha Can’t Enforce A Judgment She Appealed’ Says Lawyer

Suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has been asked to await the decision of the Court of Appeal and not forcefully attempt her return to the Senate.

A lawyer, Ken Harries, stated while reacting to Akpoti-Uduaghan’s resumption to the National Assembly, on Tuesday, while claiming to enforce the judgment of the Federal High Court said to have ordered her recall.

Harries said, “In my many years in legal practice, I have not seen such a display of lawlessness from a suppose federal lawmaker. How do you invade the National Assembly with a group of partisans claiming to want to enforce a judgment?

“There are procedures for judgment enforcement. It is not for an individual to take the law into his or her own hands, create a crisis atmosphere on the pretext of wanting to enforce a judgment,” Harries said.

He recalled that Akpoti-Uduaghan filed an appeal against the judgment about a week ago, faulting the judgment ordering her recall and praying the Court of Appeal to set it aside.

Harries, who queried the rationale behind Akpoti-Uduaghan’s decision to resume at the National Assembly, sought to know what judgment she was seeking to enforce.

“How do you enforce a judgment that you have said you are not satisfied with, condemned, appealed and prayed the Court of Appeal to reverse?

“Assuming the judgment is still enforceable, has she complied with all the orders made against her, including that she pay N5million and publish public apology in two newspapers and her Facebook page?

“If she has failed to obey the same judgment by not complying with the orders made against her, what moral standing does she has to accused the leadership of the Senate of being lawless?,” he asked.

Harris maintained that the suspended lawmaker’s lawyers should be in a better position to advise her “to learn to be lawful and respect the rule of law. Whoever goes to equity must go with clean hands,” Harries said.