The senator representing Kogi central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan on Friday accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of sexual harassment during an interview on Arise TV.
This latest face-off followed the change in the seating arrangement in the upper chamber which the Kogi senator protested was a ploy to silence and relegate her in the floor of the house
In the Arise interview, Akpoti-Uduaghan described the situation and said: “Mine is the case of a student being punished by a lecturer for refusing to sleep with him.”
In 2014 during the regime of President Goodluck Jonathan, Akpoti-Uduaghan made similar allegation against Reno Omokri who was the then aide to President
On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, Akpoti-Uduaghan posted on her Facebook wall that the former presidential spokesman, Reno Omokri sexually harassed her on May 6, 2014 during a state banquet for then Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta.
In response to her allegation, Omokri announced a $50,000 reward for anyone who could provide a photograph or video of him at the Uhuru Kenyatta banquet.
Omokri thereafter published proof that he was not in the country during the event.
He provided a British Airways ticket as well as Nigerian and American immigration stamps on his passport.
Omokri said at that time of state visit of Kenya President, he was in the United States as a personal envoy of Jonathan, who sent him to counter the negative narrative arising from the kidnap of Chibok schoolgirls.
While in the US, Reno Omokri met and was seen photographed with state department officials.
Akpoti thereafter deleted all traces of her accusation from her social media profiles.
Omokri later announced that he had received a large sum of money as part of an out-of-court settlement.
