₦airaland Forum

The optics are not good for this country. A senior citizen states that she has been sexually harassed and then this is the response.

There is a reason people have stopped doing charity for their fellow Nigerians.

Okpetruth:
Anyone that spoke against the the emergency rule in River State is either politically motivated or an enemy of the country. The supreme rules that there no functioning government in River State.I believe is that is an invitation for the executive arm to act. The president is very right because he has to enforce as the constitution demands. All political minded critics should shield their sword and allow peace to reign. The president should be commended and not vilified.

Let's hail the ultimate authority who has spoken. Dude stop smoking whatever it is you are smoking. There was a functioning elected government. Why else has a certain person being trying to influence the actions of that government?

papyjaypaul:
T-Pain

Terrible TPain or TPain The Terrible (3T)

HenryThegreat1:
Terrible President

It looks like his new nickname will be 2T - Terrible Tinubu. The thing even rhymes small.

fuckingAyaya:
you are a mugu go and recover Illorin first before you talk about ruling someone Omo eran.

What is Ilorin to me? You can keep it. See this small minded lout. No wonder they can pay you money to hate and you are so low to take it.

fuckingAyaya:
God punish ur lineage idiot.

AHH it stings eh. Let's see who GOD punishes first - a child of hate or a child seeking to stop hate.

My lineage shall continually rule over yours and that of haters like yours - such is the decree of GOD. May you be continually cursed for collecting money to spread hate.

We have people who are ignorant on this thread

Ignorant about Natasha's background and the family she comes from
Ignorant about what sexual harassment is. I hope the men also realise that it goes both ways.
Ignorant about what Natasha has done in Kogi
Ignorant about how the senate works
Ignorant about how politicians are expert at weaponising hunger and stomach infrastructure

For example immediately I see any person saying Natasha has done nothing for her region then I know that person is a liar.

Appletek:
You Igbo Obidients loudmouths are impotent noisemakers. That's why everyone sends you on foolish political errands.

Have you heard any Ijaw, Ikwerre, Ogoni, Andoni or Etche person from Rivers say anything since Fubara was kept in the cooler?

But you idiotic Igbo Obidients want them to destroy their lands the way you foolish people have destroyed yours.

From Monday, civil servants will start getting paid. Contractors will get paid. LG workers will get paid. Then, everyone will abandon that Fubara of an idiot so you Biafran failures can support him fully.

You too are spreading hate shebi. GOD punish you as well if you continue. All of you are being paid to sow the seeds of hate making people to seriously think the other ethnic groups are very bad and subhuman. I thought NL had mods looking out for this.

hopedey:
Yorubas. ... I don't really like generalizing now I have no any other options than to do so.

Tell the person paying you to sow hate that you will not. If not may GOD punish you and all hate mongers. You are no different from the terrible politicians making the bad decisions.

fuckingAyaya:
Only yoruba people support this injustice why?

GOD punish you if you continue trying to sow hate. Wike is Yoruba. Your senate is fully Yoruba. Falana must not be Yoruba. I repeat may GOD punish you if you continue to sow hate.

AllBlack:
Honestly, when you take your time to look at the way a large majority of Nairaland people respond to matters that come in long texts, you would quiver at how this reflects the general comprehension level of a larger group of people who you share the same nationality with.
It makes you wonder how easy it is to keep the populace chained to backwardness because it would be hard for a country with such a humongous amount of literacy deficient people would ever achieve collective progress.
The major quagmire in this sad matter is that a large percentage of the people that fall this in this category have academic certificates and large following of people in society and there is nothing you can ever do or say to make them see how their academic deformity is leaking drops of nuisance like vinegar in the public pool of enlightenment.

What is scary is they outnumber the reasonable people with common sense. Nigeria is effed with this system of democracy where a werey has the same vote count as a reasonable person.

Another accuser of the senate president on not creating a conducive environment for people to speak their minds.

If this is true then it wasn't an explosion but something else.

The inability of people to look ahead and see the impact of their actions remains a stumbling block. Power intoxicates and there are few who are wise enough to wield it properly. No one knows what can happen tomorrow especially if death is opening the door. Even worse the doorway to sowing seeds of destruction for a state.

APC should not be allowed to take over Rivers State.

At the moment, I would like Dangote to clearly state the stations that are buying from him. Let's boycott these saboteurs who are importing.

I know of AP and MRS. I will be patronising those two stations. The rest can go suck eggs.

YouAreNobody:
No vex o, but are you foolish?

I am not angry and I am not foolish. I wonder why one would take a person asking a question as being foolish? It is that very behaviour of treating someone asking questions as foolish that IS foolish.

This doesn't make sense. I hope we are not paying subsidy to anyone.

JASONjnr:
Strength of will?

You don't make any sense....

If she had anything against him, she would've stated it from the onset.... Not exactly when she disobeyed the senate rules and she suddenly remembered she was asked out...

My comment would not make sense to some types of people.

papyjaypaul:
I know women can be manipulative but I won't take sides because until you investigate a matter, you can't know who's lying. Only an elder who has no respect for himself will pass judgment without hearing from both sides.

What you are saying is akin to saying that we should explain everything we say. When the Senate President said he sent a prayer to the mail, it could also mean anything

The best is to let them investigate the matter. If she is found lying, let her suffer the same fate for a man falsely accused. Any man that is sure of himself will dare her to prove herself. Look at how Fayemi immediately released a press statement to clear his name yesterday.

The lady has also been smart enough to go to the media to talk about the sexual allegations and she has played her cards well. She first told Berekete that she has been holding so many things and will say it at the appropriate time and later she went to Arise to say the things.

If you have sisters or daughters, you will understand what women face, whether they are manipulators or not. Since you know the game as a man, you don't give them that chance. The conduct of the SP and his defence whereby you attack the person, her character and personal life and not the issue at hand makes it more suspicious. Some women backed that UNN girl and alleged that the lecturer could be harassing her but we saw how the man's character stood up for him. I didn't agree with the man trying to take her phone by force but her conduct was what made her suspended from UNN. Senate is talking about rules of the Senate but they are not looking at the impact of that allegation on the society. You are doing the same thing by trying to be technical when an investigation can solve the problem.
The Binance man accused our legislators of bribing him. You think these things just go away like that? He too could lying but what it means is that you don't have people of honor representing you.

The lack of emotional intelligence in the Senate really worries me. This could and should have been handled much better. The optics is really not good but I suspect they are too arrogant to be wise in how they approach and handle the manner. After all which common man can touch them?

JASONjnr:
I carefully went through her petition and it's a piece of trash....


She claimed her husband was there when Akpabio fondled her hands and he didn't see it .....

She claimed that he told her she should make her happy.... Apparently, Akpabio never asked her for sex.... Making someone happy could mean so many things.... Could mean, help me with contracts or Information.

Also, she visited him after he called her on a legislative matters after 7pm which she claimed took permission from her husband who was abroad at the time..... If Akpabio was sexually harassing her and with this exact boldness, she would have refused meeting him at odd hours. But she went regardless.

Again, all these things happened years back and she never spoke up. But just when she violated the house rules and was to be punished, she decided to bring sexual harassment as a defence tactics....

This is a cleverless move......

Women are manipulators....

Do me a favour. If you work in a reputable organisation and you are in a leadership role - go and do this to a lady. handle her hands and tell her you can make her happy. A man in a position of leadership should be responsible and intelligent enough not to do certain things.

Also the issue of time - perhaps it is now the lady could have the strength of will to bring it up or she could no longer take it.

SAMBARRY:
if I were her family member I'll just tell her to resign because the people around her career are filled with sexual deviants, sexual psychopaths and narcissists. What's worth your peace,a healthy family life and dignity?

Go and check all those men supporting baba akwa ibom, series of side chick's,sleeping with teenagers and even their daughters .I even remembered the senator from the North that married a 13 year old child and those are the people supposedly the gatekeepers of the nation.are pedophiles and people with mental issues the one that you want to surround yourself with in the name of politics. To hell with narcissists and their obsession for power play and dirty politics.

Fighting with shameless people and narcissists will be the greatest disservice natasha will ever do to herself and if you have any self respect do not apologise for what you experienced. Do not let anybody guilt trip or gaslight you into apologising for complaining over sexual harassment

Women you too respect yourself and stay away from men with known sexual dysfunction and pedophile. Maintain a very firm distance from them if you work in the same place. If you must be in the same place with them you either stay wi them putting on body cameras or with someone else because the system will not protect you without substantial proof

Kpom!

Based on the comments I have read, now I know we have serious problems with the way we treat women or victims. Sexual harassment is not a joke. Yet we are here lambasting a female senator for speaking out. Yes she has not lived a perfect life. Yes she has been sexually active. Does that mean she can't complain of sexual harassment. If a female senator can't speak out, is it our daughters, our sisters, our wives, our mothers who can speak out? The impression about Nigeria due to this case outside and inside our shores isn't good. We have a rape culture where people in authority (male and female) sexually harass people. We have work to do.

Now some idiots are even making this a tribal or ethnic issue - those ones, may GOD punish them. I see some nairalanders liking and supporting their post. I presume it is either out of ignorance or stupidity. I have no love for wicked people who seek to cause strife by dehumanising other ethnic groups. That is the tactic people use to cause and sow the seeds of civil war and violence. Mark those accounts well - they have been paid to cause strife. May the monies they have received bring their heads to an early grave unless they repent. I repeat - may GOD punish them.

tabaralph:
This her gra gra can lead to expulsion if she doesn’t write apology letter to the senate as instructed by the house ethics committee regarding her disobedience to the senate rule by not standing for the senate president when he was making his entrance on two consecutive occasions.

Expulsion ke? From the Senate? Do people think? An elected person suspended from where they are meant to represent their people. This has farther reaching consequences than people are thinking.

And what will happen after 6 months? Another suspension? Life is a very long journey.

Antoeni:
Why Are Nigeria Men Becoming Heartless, Insensitive & Unfair Towards The Nigeria Women, Pa.Ned to Regina Daniels, Burna Boy To Sophia,Now Akpabio to Natasha?

There is nothing unfair in what Ned or Burna did. There is no equivalency here. Regina Daniels got the same treatment that she did to someone. Sophia is a ho. Natasha is a senator that accused Akpabio of inappropriate behaviour. There is no equivalency.

Bendeco02:
Check all the people supporting Akpabio, they're all from one tribe = Yoruba

They always like to hide under people with power like women. They can never have their own voice

You are an idiot. And may GOD punish you for the above post. This includes all those seeking to start anti-tribal sentiments on Nairaland against any ethnic groups. May GOD punish all of you.

This is not a good look for the senate. There is no honour in it. It gives the impression that the males are also from the same ilk as Akpabio.

I have no sympathy. As an African, I am laughing as the world gets a taste of the dehumanising actions of certain countries.

As a teacher would cry out - To your tents, O Israel. Don't rely on man. He is like a broken broomstick.

Some of us have not bought since it reached 1k naira to a dollar o. Also this would only scare novices. People have hedged their investments.

Anyone picking sides in this must either be jobless or have something to gain. I pray for those who are giving themselves stress that they have something to gain.

That said, an honourable office must be occupied by an honourable person else the office becomes dishonourable.

Love800:
Great. Thanks so much.
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Love800:
What is mozila pls?

Mozilla Firefox. This was at one time the number one competitor to Internet Explorer before Chrome came into the picture. However with Chrome now being a system hog and its messing around with privacy, more people are returning to Firefox. Firefox uses less system resources and offers better privacy.

However I read on Reddit that Firefox is now messing around with privacy options as well and I am contemplating Brave.