I Acted In Good Faith- Senator Neda Imasuen

 



The Senator representing Edo 
South Senatorial district at the Senate, Senator Neda Imasuen, Chairman Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Public Petitions has said that he acted in good faith as the Senate Committee Chairman in the case brought before it regarding Senator Natasha Akpoti- Uduaghan representing Kogi Central Senatorial district and the Senate President Godswill Akpabio adding that those seeking his recall were hungry people who were taken to Kogi to be briefed on what to do and were paid and were therefore working for their money.


He made the observation earlier today in a press briefing at the premises of the Edo Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Benin City the Edo State capital.


" I want to put it on record here that the issue that was before my committee was on a conduct on the floor of the Senate and has absolutely nothing to do with sexual harassment. Sexual harassment came after the first petition that was brought before my committee.

"We have standing rules and those rules must be followed. It is not a one-man committee but a committee of about 29 members and I am only the chairman and all manners of petition come to my table and for anyone to suggest that somebody was targeted is misplaced and I just want to say that I was in no way biased in the discharge of the responsibility.

"On the issue of sexual harassment, the first petition that was presented was signed by the petitioner which is against the rules of the Senate but was supposed to be signed by someone else either from her Constituency or by any other person other than the petitioner but we had to reject the petition because it was signed by the petitioner and when the petition came and I said it was dead on arrival because it was not properly brought before the Senate committee us, maybe that was what angered them. She later presented the petition two days later without an address but with a phone number and when the owner of the phone number was contacted to appear before the committee, he refused to address the committee on the pretext that the committee was biased. We could not hear the issue of sexual harassment because it was already before a competent court. However, we had wanted to hear the petition but the petitioner bluntly refused to address the committee on the excuse that the committee was biased. So, anyone claiming that I was biased is either not conversant with the rules of the house or is just outrightly being mischievous".

The Senator who cited instance of lack of understanding of the Senate rules by those asking for his recall said that he wished them well adding that they should continue in their bid to recall him.





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