Nigerian Socio-Political activist, and Co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, has called for the sack of the Code Of Conduct Tribunal, CCT Chairman, Justice Danladi Umar over the ‘Biafran Boys’ tag labelled on his victim of assault by his media aide.
A video of the CCT Chairman physically assaulting a security guard around Barnex Plaza in Wuse, Abuja, had surfaced online, after which his spokesperson, Ibrahim Al-Hassan issued a statement which had a lot of grammatical errors, labelling the victim and others around the scene as ‘Biafran Boys’.
Responding on Wednesday in a video posted on Twitter, Aisha said Danladi did not have “the neutrality to manage that position”.
“What the heck is going on? I mean all of this nonsense have to stop. That man should either be made to resign, be sacked or whatever! If he can think of a group of people and label them Biafran boys then he doesn’t have the neutrality to manage that position.
“I am absolutely shocked. Did the chairman of the CCT Justice Danladi Umar just referred to people as Biafran boys? Really? What?
“What a freaking hell is going on in Nigeria. In his mental mind, in his thoughts, he refers to people as Biafran Boys. Yet he has the guts to also put it in black and white. Oh my goodness!!!
“There is so much and absolute disrespect in the country from charlatans, hooligans – a let my people go mentality. If it was based on merit and the same capacity that is used for everyone when they are entering primary, secondary schools and all of that.
“You have cut off marks, some people have 4 or 6 or whatever, if it was based on competence that employment was being given, would he have been the justice of the code of conduct tribunal?
“When he cannot even conduct himself in public. He assaulted someone, and then he comes to make a statement and then on that statement he poured petrol on fire,” she said.
In an official statement released by his spokesman on Tuesday, Danladi’s camp alleged that the security man was rude and had threatened the CCT Chairman.
Read the full statement:
“Our attention was drawn on a report from some online publication with a video cliff suggesting 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 with anybody.
“Unfortunately, yesterday’s altercations started over a packing lot, which chairman met vacant and it was directly opposite a shop he want to make a purchase and to fixe his phone, when the young security guard sighted him, he ordered that chairman should not pack his car in that particular empty space, but chairman asked why, the security guard couldn’t convinced chairman, though chairman didn’t identify himself, because to him is needless and is a place he visited often, but the boy was rode in his approached and threaten to deal with chairman if he refuse to leave the scene.
“Again, if chairman had went there to cause trouble or intimidate some one, 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 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 and shape object to his car, which led to deep cut and dislocation in one of his finger, causing damage to his car, smashing his windscreen.
“At a point he attempted to leave the scene, these same miscreants, BIAFRAN boy 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, sympathy usually goes to the low personalities. Though is unfortunate as I said, it ought not to have happened”.
