Former Presidential Adviser, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, has faulted Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s sexual harassment claim, saying once women become senators, they can’t be sexually harassed.
Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan had recently claimed on a live
television programme that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, frustrated
her moves to raise motions about Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State because
she refused to sleep with him.
However, while reacting to Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s sexual
allegation against the Senate President on Arise TV on Tuesday, March 4, 2025,
Senator Ita-Giwa said women can’t claim to be sexually harassed when they are
elected into the Senate.
The former lawmaker for Cross-River South Senatorial
District believes it is a sign of weakness for female senators to complain
about sexual harassment.
She said, “By the time you contest elections and get to
Senate, you have passed that stage of your life of being sexually harassed. You
go there to serve, and you are all equal in that place. And again, it shows
weakness; you don’t allow it. It (sexual harassment) can not happen in the
Senate.
“I am not saying the lady is lying, but when you get to the
Senate, you’re there as a person. You’re not there as a woman.
“At that stage in politics, if you come out and say someone
is sexually harassing you, it is a weakness.”
When asked if female lawmakers should keep quiet when their
colleague sexually harasses them, Ita-Giwa insisted that it is a sign of
weakness for female senators to accuse their colleagues of making passes at
them.
“On this matter, I am not with Senator Akpoti. It is the
worst sign of weakness on a woman’s part to come out and accuse a man of making
passes at you at that level,” she said.
She maintained that female senators should see themselves as
equal lawmakers to their male counterparts because winning senatorial elections
is not easy.
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Ita Giwa can only speak for herself. She seemed to be out of her mind or could she be suffering any brain issue.
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