Clement Sagwak, the security guard assaulted by the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), asking for a probe into the March 29 incident. Mr Sagwak, in an April 9 petition signed by his lawyer, Samuel Ihensekhien, accused the CCT chairman of abuse of power, assault, torture, and ‘xenophobia’.
Source had reported how Mr Umar was caught on camera physically assaulting Mr Sargwak, at Banex Plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja, on March 29.
Mr Umar, who presides over the trial of public offers accused of breach of code of conduct, turned into visible within the 5-minute viral video clip, slapping and kicking the security defend following an altercation that ensued among them over a parking area on the premises of the plaza.
Mr Sargwak, with a bruised lip, later discovered to PREMIUM TIMES that he changed into attacked by way of the CCT chair after he approached him over incorrect parking on the plaza premises.
A cellphone repairer, Peter Onyiuke, with an outlet at the plaza, become additionally detained for one week allegedly on Mr Umar’s preparation, following a quarrel they'd at the sideline of the scene created with the aid of CCT chairman’s attack at the plaza’s safety guard.
Demands
In the petition dated April nine, 2021, and addressed to the Secretary of the NHRC, Anthony Ojukwu, Mr Sargwak urged the commission to analyze the attack he suffered inside the fingers of Mr Umar and his driving force, and the subsequent slur campaign the CCT launched against him and tenants of the plaza after the incident.
In a declaration packed with errors, the CCT press and media unit, accused Mr Sargwak of being impolite in his come across with Mr Umar.
The unit also alleged that CCT chairman become mobbed with the aid of ‘Biafran boys’, a characterisation that turned into widely condemned as a slur on an ethnic organization.
Mr Sargwark stated, through his attorney, thar the slur in the statement after he turned into attacked via the CCT chairman violated section 26 of the Cybercrime Probation and other Offences Act, 2015.
The petition reads, in element, “As if that turned into now not enough, that the said Umar Danladi thru his press office issued a press assertion at Code of Conduct Tribunal in which he complained in defence of his atrocious act of Umar Danladi stated that the tenant of Banex Plaza and the Clement Sagwak attacked him and a few tenants of Banex Plaza who witnessed the unsightly incident and nominal complainant/our consumer’s assault are Biafra boys, in which identical ebook is contrary to 26 of Cybercrimes Prohibitions and Other Offences Act 2015, as equal act as Umar Danladi and his press officer represent use of racist terms and the aftermath distribution of the same through (an) electronic medium via all men and women, represent a distribution of xenophobic cloth on this regard.
“Whereof the act of Umar Danladi and all men and women related to him is opposite to the provisions and sections below the Penal Code Act segment 26 of Cybercrimes Prohibition and other Offences Act 2015.”
‘Intimidation’
The petitioner also accused each Mr Umar and officials of the F.C.T police command of “intimidating and threatening tenants and all eyewitnesses in an try and cover up Mr Umar’s grimy tracks of the March 29 occasion.”
“That the F.C.T Police Command officers are busy inviting and threatening to arrest banex plaza tenants and all those that (who) witness(ed) the unruly behaviour of Umar Danladi to cover up Umar Danladi crook and dirty tracks.
“That the IPO of the Police Command has again invited a colleague of Clement Sargwak who's one of the eyewitnesses to the occasion on Monday, March 29, 2021.
“That the Umar Danladi is bent on intimidating anyone around Clement Sagwak who has any beneficial statistics to indict our customer,” the petition partially reads.
Efforts to attain the F.C.T police spokesperson, Mariam Yusuf, have been unsuccessful. She did no longer reply to calls and textual content messages despatched to her regarded smartphone number.
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