Following the outrage generated
by the video showing a senator of the Federal Republic, Elijah Abbo, assaulting
a woman in a sex toy shop in Abuja, the Inspector General of Police (IGP),
Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of the senator and his orderly by an
investigative team set up by the Police Force headquarters in Abuja.
Investigations are currently
ongoing at the Federal Capital Territory Police Command into the alleged attack
on a sales girl by a serving senator in Abuja.
The news of the attack went viral
after a video recorded by the Close Circuit Television (CCTV), installed in the
shop was shared on the social media, an act which is said to have embarrassed
the police authorities.
The Police force says they are
doing everything within their powers to restore dignity to the force, following
the conduct of the police orderly attached to the senator.
According to Police sources, the
incident actually happened in a sex-toy shop in Abuja, where the senator had
gone to make purchases.
The video which has been
circulating on the internet shows the angry senator beat up the sales girl and
ordered his police orderly to take her away.
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When contacted, the Senator told
Channels Television that he would release an official statement in reaction to
the assault video.
“We will be releasing statement
maybe tomorrow afternoon,” he said, adding that the incident happened before he
became a Senator.
Beyond that, the Senator claimed
that the roughly 10-minute video was incomplete, claiming he was at the shop
because his sister had been assaulted there and that part was left out.
He said, “We will soon release an
official statement to the viral video which happened before I became a senator
where my younger sister was beaten to a pulp in a shop and I was called upon
there; where I had to call an ambulance and a policeman to come to the scene
and it got out of hand I was also assaulted.
“It is an old video, but we will
soon release a statement to that effect.
“It was my sister that was at the
store and she was assaulted; in fact, she fainted in the shop but they
compressed the video and cut that part out of it.
“They took her out to resuscitate
her, the one standing with a cap is a doctor, the doctor had to come to give
her life. My sister is not in the video, it was completely cropped out of it.”
Senator Abbo said he would be
demanding the release of the full recording.
“This is a political season and
now I am a politician, before I was not a politician but now the reality of the
fact is that I am now a politician and politicians are not people who are
liked, they exhume things of 20 years and they hang it on their neck now,” he
said.
“As I said before we will release
a robust response to everything, and we will also ask for the entire video to
be released since they have the video. We will seat and discuss the video. Just
to be clear that video was taken long before now and it was released just as
this point.”
Brutal Assault
In the CCTV video, the Senator
had, however, not mentioned anything about his sister being assaulted. The
video showed him seated in the shop for a while as activities went on. He then
got on the phone, walked out of the office for a bit, came back in and sat
down.
Four minutes into the video, he
received another call. Shortly after, a policeman came in and he informed the
policeman, that the shop attendant is his friend but that she insulted him.
“She is not my enemy; she is my
friend. We are not enemies; she is my friend and I have known her for over five
years. But she insulted me. She said I am drunk, I am stupid and I am mad,” he
said before asking the policeman to take her away.
As he was speaking to the
policeman, the lady made a call of her own to inform her father about what was
going on, but the move angered Abbo, who ordered her to stop the call.
As she tried to round up the
call, another man with Abbo tried to slap the phone away, prompting another
woman in the shop to intervene.
After the woman asked the man to
“take it easy”, Abbo flew into the raged and attacked her.
The assault has attracted
widespread condemnation, emerging as a top trend on social media with more than
100,000 tweets dedicated to it, many of them declaring the action as
unacceptable, shameful, and criminal and demanding that the authorities,
particularly the police and the Senate, should act.
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