Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist, has demanded that CSP Abdullahi Hassan Abubakar, the Divisional Police Officer of the Federal Secretariat Police Station in Abuja, be investigated immediately for his role in the thugs' attack on his person in Abuja.
Sowore made the request in a petition to the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Usman Alkali Baba, the Inspector-General of Police, the Department of State Services (DSS), the European Union, and the US Embassy.
Thugs are being mobilized by Nigeria's secret police, the DSS, to attack Sowore during Kanu's trial on Wednesday.
The Police Authorities and the DSS, on the other hand, have failed to react to the petition signed by his lawyer, Tope Temokun for Tope Temokun Chambers, on October 25, 2021.
"Our lawyers wrote to the IGP and the DSS about the attacks on me, but they didn't respond," Sowore claimed.
Despite the overwhelming presence of security operatives on the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja on October 21, some hoodlums suspected of being supported by the Nigerian government attacked Sowore, according to SaharaReporters.
The security officers refused to let the human rights activist into the courtroom.
He was barred from entering the courtroom for a variety of reasons, including the fact that Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was on trial there.
However, while he was still speaking with the security guards, a group of about 20 hoodlums approached.
The hoodlums then approached and assaulted the campaigner. It took the help of journalists in the area to save him.
However, as the activist was being pummeled, security agents, including the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the Federal Secretariat Police Station, stood by and watched.
"We were briefed by our client that on Tuesday, October 21, 2021, while our client was at the Federal High Court in Abuja to observe and witness the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, he was attacked by some men armed with petrol bombs and other lethal weapons who alighted from a vehicle with registration number BWR 812 KM that conveyed them to the Court premises in a manner that suggested they were brought there by those authorities to wreak havoc and decease,"
"Our client stated that he was in the presence of Nigerian police officers at the Federal High Court in Abuja when these suspected sponsored squad arrived in a vehicle and began an aggressive throwing of tirade and vitriol at him in full view of Nigerian police officers in order to provoke him to react and prepare the ground for the planned attack."
"To our client's chagrin, instead of the Nigeria Police Force officers present, led by CSP ABDULLAHI ABUBAKAR HASSAN, the DPO of the Federal Secretariat Police Station, Abuja, who appeared to have foreknowledge of the attackers' presence and mission, arresting the situation, it was rather perplexing to see him and these officers acting in a solicitous manner towards these attackers, which later encouraged them to attack Our Client right there before the eviction
"It is our client's brief that CSP ABDULLAHI ABUBAKAR HASSAN, the said DPO of the Federal Secretariat Police Station, Abuja, was seen engaging the belligerent assailants, offering tacit support to whatever agenda they had, and that no sooner had CSP ABDULLAHI ABUBAKAR HASSAN, treacherously engaged with the attackers that day in the open than our client was violently attacked by these same assail The attack on our client was only averted thanks to the intervention of journalists and other well-intentioned Nigerians present at the time.
"After the attack was carried out and our client was rescued by the brave Nigerians who were present, the said CSP ABDULLAHI ABUBAKAR HASSAN, DPO of the Federal Secretariat Police Station, Abuja, when confronted by our client about his roles and complicity, claimed he had arrested the assailants, only to release them without disclosing their identities or conducting any investigation."
"On the 26th of July, the same CSP ABDULLAHI ABUBAKAR HASSAN, the DPO of the Federal Secretariat Police Station, Abuja, arrested our client illegally and subjected him to beatings and other degrading treatment for attempting to enter the premises of the Federal High Court, Abuja, without any justification whatsoever."
"We respectfully request, sir, that you kindly cause an investigation into this matter by inviting CSP ABDULLAHI ABUBAKAR HASSAN, the DPO of the Federal Secretariat Police Station, Abuja, who led other police officers to the scene of this incident and who knew the identities of these assailants as he claimed to have arrested the attackers immediately after the attack, only for him to release them without a serious attempt at any investigation,"
"While we await your prompt action on this subject, sir, we agree to provide beneficial and helpful remarks and evidence, including but not limited to images and videos of the occurrence, to the commission in due time, and we will appreciate it, sir, if this petition is handled expeditiously."
Source: Sahara reporters