The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Umar Danladi, has denied assaulting a security guard at Banex Plaza, in Wuse Abuja as apparetly shown in a viral video.
The five-minute video had apparently showed the CCT Chairman, slapping and kicking a security guard before he was restrained and led into his car by some police officers.
Reacting to the video in a statement on Tuesday, Ibraheem Al-Hassan, CCT spokesperson, denied the evidence of the video, insisting that it was actually the security man who assaulted Danladi.
According to the spokesperson, the security man was rude and threatened to deal with the CCT chairman.
According to Al-Hassan, altercations ensued when the security guard ordered Danladi to move his car from the parking lot, but could not give a satisfactory reason to Danladi for the order.
The security guard, Al-hassan said, subsequently threatened to deal with his boss, if he failed to heed the order.
According to him, the policemen seen at the scene were not Danladi’s security aides, but only came to rescue him from his assailant.
Al-hassan also claimed that Danladi sustained an injury on one of his fingers from a sharp object thrown at him, adding that the mob at the plaza smashed the windscreen of his car.
The statement reads, “The altercations started over a parking lot which chairman met vacant, and it was directly opposite a shop where he wanted to make a purchase and to fix his phone. When the young security guard sighted him, he ordered that the chairman should not park his car in that particular space.
The boy was rude in his approach and threatened to deal with chairman if he refused to leave the scene. Again, if the chairman had gone there to cause trouble or intimidate someone, as suggested, he would have gone there in his full official paraphernalia. But he went there alone with his younger brother. The policemen seen in the video clip were not the chairman’s police team. They were policemen operating around the plaza, who at first instance intervened before the arrival of the police team from Maitama Police Station.
The mob in the plaza started throwing machetes and sharp objects at Umar’s car, which led to a deep cut and dislocation in one of his fingers, causing damage to his car and smashing his windscreen. At the point he attempted to leave the scene, these same miscreants ordered for the closure of the gate, thereby assaulting him before the arrival of police team from Maitama police station.”
