{"id":193603,"date":"2025-03-15T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T13:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-senate-remains-in-shame-as-distinguished-senator-natasha-fights-on-by-jibrin-ibrahim\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T13:46:50","slug":"nigeria-the-senate-remains-in-shame-as-distinguished-senator-natasha-fights-on-by-jibrin-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-senate-remains-in-shame-as-distinguished-senator-natasha-fights-on-by-jibrin-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: The Senate Remains in Shame As Distinguished Senator Natasha Fights On, By Jibrin Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The principle of Nemo Judex in Causa Sua (no one should be a judge in their own case) has been completely disregarded in this matter on the unconstitutional punishments meted out to Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\"><strong>Women are grossly under-represented in Nigeria&#8217;s governance structures and to zero-in on both the sexual and political harassment of a female legislator is a disservice to our democracy. Such action has legitimised attacks on the freedom of expression, encouraged intimidation, and&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140492.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The principle of Nemo Judex in Causa Sua (no one should be a judge in their own case) has been completely disregarded in this matter on the unconstitutional punishments meted out to Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Women are grossly under-represented in Nigeria&#8217;s governance structures and to zero-in on both the sexual and political harassment of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,15225,8958,13163,48209,22246,257,4687,393,7602,8115,7798,14617,254],"class_list":["post-193603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-distinguished","tag-fights","tag-ibrahim","tag-jibrin","tag-natasha","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-remains","tag-senate","tag-senator","tag-shame","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}