Eminent Nigerians have condemned the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Umar Danladi for physically assaulting a security guard at Banex Plaza in Wuse, Abuja.
They also called for his immediate dismissal and prosecution by the Nigerian government.
Recall TheNewsGuru (TNG) reported how Mr Umar was caught in a viral video clip kicking and slapping a security guard.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has tasked the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, to take an action on the assault allegation leveled against Danladi Umar.
He made this suggestion while speaking at a webinar orgainsed by the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC). He urged the NBA to take the matter seriously.
Falana said, “Just last night, and this is in the social media now, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal was fighting in the market,”
He added, “He (Mr Umar) slapped the security man in the market, and this has been shown to the whole world. The NBA must take this matter very seriously.”
Speaking on Umar’s shameful act, Professor Ibrahim Jibrin, who is highly revered in the northern academia space, unequivocally demanded for the immediate sack of the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Jibrin made the call on Wednesday in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle @JibrinIbrahim17.
Danladi Umar, chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal was caught on video physically assaulting a security man at Banex Plaza in Abuja saying the guard was “rude”. Then he issues a statement condemning Biafran boys. No decorum, totally unacceptable, he must be sacked.
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— Jibrin Ibrahim (@JibrinIbrahim17) March 31, 2021
According to the Prof. the CCT Chairman lack decorum and doesn’t deserve the highly revered post of a CCT Chairman.
Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim was a member of the Electoral Reform Committee during the administration of former President Umaru Musa Yar’adua. He has observed elections in Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi, Togo, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia and Guinea for the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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Similarly, Nigerian Socio-Political activist, and Co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, demanded Umar’s sack over the ‘Biafran Boys’ tag labelled on his victim of assault by his media aide.
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.