The suspended lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has been found guilty of contempt by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
In a ruling delivered on Friday, Justice Binta Nyako said Akpoti-Uduaghan violated the court’s order by publishing a satirical apology to the Senator President, Godswill Akpabio.
Nyako stated that the apology, which was published on her Facebook page on April 7, is a mockery of a gag order that was placed on the parties by the court.
Thereafter, Akpoti-Uduaghan was ordered by the court to within seven days, publish an apology to it in two national dailies and also on her Facebook page.
The suspended senator was also instructed to pay a N5 million fine, with the court adding that her contempt was in a civil proceeding.
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