The Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu has ordered a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances surrounding the alleged assault on a female shop attendant by Senator Abbo Elisha.
The lawmaker, representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, was caught in a video, making the rounds in the media, physically assaulting a woman at an adult toy shop in Abuja.
He allegedly descended on the woman after she pleaded with him not to physically assault the shop owner, whom the senator had accused of insulting him by calling him a drunk.
The assault, which happened on May 11, 2019, barely three months after he was elected into the National Assembly, in the presence of an armed mobile police officer who subsequently attempted to arrest the victim on the orders of the lawmaker.
Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba, in a press statement, Wednesday in Abuja, stated that: “Specifically, the IGP directed the Commissioner of Police in charge of the FCT, CP Bala Ciroma, to provide a personal and round-the-clock supervision of every facet of the investigation, including the forensic analysis of the video in circulation as well as the actions and inaction of the policeman seen in the footage.”
He said the IGP, while assuring citizens of utmost professionalism by the Police in the handling of the matter, promised that the Force would ensure that justice is “manifestly done in this case irrespective of whose ox is gored.”
Meanwhile, CP Ciroma, has already established contact with the victim of the assault and has commenced investigation in earnest into the case, the spokesperson further stated.
