The court stops the probe of the Senate of Natasha

The High Federal Court sitting in Abuja prevented the Senate from continuing with the public hearing scheduled on the alleged misconduct of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Auduaghan.

The judge Obiora Egwuatu, who granted the provisional injunction among others, ordered the National Assembly, the Senate and the Senate Ethics Committee to suspend the hearing scheduled for Wednesday.

The defendants, including the employee of the National Assembly, the Senate salesman and the Ethics Committee, must show a cause within 72 hours for which an interlocutory injunction should not be granted to stop the hearing.

Remember that Natasha had been invited for the audience reprogrammed to proceed on Wednesday 5 March for his conduct to the Senate when he accused the president of the Senate Godswill Akpabio of victimizing it by realizing his seat.

Subsequently he accused the president of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, of harassing her sexually.

The immediate question of analysts is whether the Court can validly retain the legislator, an independent government arm with parliamentary or legislative immunity, from the execution of its functions as constitutionally circumscribed.

This is the question that the Senate will have to determine today while the ethical committee and privileges aims to start the Natasha probe.