A video of the incumbent chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Justice Danladi Umar assaulting a security man at a mall in Abuja has been trending online.
Chidi Odinkalu shared the incident on his twitter handle on Tuesday @ChidiOdinkalu.
He tweeted: “The thug in suit here is Danladi Umar who, as Chairman of #Nigeria’s Code of Conduct Tribunal, #CCT, polices #EthicsInPublicLife. Here he is assaulting innocent citizens in a market place. But the regime will seek to excuse him in because he is their own #BanditInSuits.”
However, while a possible denial was being expected, the CCT released a statement confirming the incident.
The poorly-crafted statement has equally assaulted public sensibilities in its form and content.
It is replete with grammatical infelicities, innuendos and ethnic profiling of a section of the country.
Read the statement: “Our attention was drawn on (sic) a report from some online publication with a video cliff (sic) suggesting (that) Hon Chairman, Justice Danladi Y. Umar assaulted a Security Guard at Banex Plaza.
“To start with, the said plaza has been his usual place of visits for the past 18 years for shopping and repairs of his phones, and in all these periods there have never been any time he had any turmoil (sic) with anybody.
“Unfortunately, yesterday’s altercations started over a packing (sic) lot, which (the) Chairman met vacant and it was directly opposite a shop he want (sic) to make a purchase and to fixe (sic) his phone, when the young Security guard sighted him, he ordered that (the) Chairman should not pack his car in that particular empty space, but (when the) Chairman asked why (sic), the security guard couldn’t convinced (sic) chairman, though Chairman didn’t identify himself, because to him is (sic) needless and is a place he visited often, but the boy was rode (sic) in his approached (sic) and threaten (sic) to deal with Chairman if he refuse (sic) to leave the scene.
“Again, if Chairman had went (sic) there to cause trouble or intimidate someone, as suggested in the report, he would have gone there in his full official paraphernalia, but he went there alone with his younger brother.
“The Police men seen in the video cliff (sic) were not the Chairman’s police team, they were policemen operating around the plaza whom at first instance intervened before the arrival of police team from Maitama Police station. As the few policemen in the complex were apparently overwhelmed by the mobs, consisting of BIAFRAN boys throwing matches (sic) and shape (sic) object to his car, which led to deep cut and dislocation in one of his finger (sic), causing damage to his car, smashing his (sic) windscreen.
“At a point, he attempted to leave the scene, these same miscreants, BIAFRAN boy (sic) ordered for the closure of the gate thereby assaulting him before the arrival of police team from Maitama police station.
“An incident like this when it happened (sic), sympathy usually goes to the low (sic) personalities. Though is(sic) unfortunate as I said, it ought not to have happened.”
Ibraheem Al-Hassan,
Head, Press & Public Relations.
CCT HQ.
Abuja.
March, 30th 2021.
Watch the video here:
The thug in suit here is Danladi Umar who, as Chairman of #Nigeria's Code of Conduct Tribunal, #CCT, polices #EthicsInPublicLife. Here he is assaulting innocent citizens in a market place. But the regime will seek to excuse him in because he is their own #BanditInSuits pic.twitter.com/qOG6zPEh4f
— Chidi Odinkalu (@ChidiOdinkalu) March 30, 2021
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