Assault: Senate reopens case against CCT boss, Danladi Umar

The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, has reopened the case of assault levelled against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Danladi Umar.

The CCT Chairman had in a viral video in 2021, allegedly assaulted one Clement Sargwak at the Bannex Plaza in Wuse 2, area of Abuja Federal Capital Territory.

In seeking redress, the victim, filed a petition against Umar through his lawyers to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition to investigate it. The CCT chairman honoured the debut seating on the case and had shunned honouring subsequent invitations thereafter.

Umar, rathrough his attorneys last year said that he was already in court against the investigation before the Court then gave a declarative judgment on the matter saying that the Senate had the locus stand to proceed with the case.

The Chairman of the Senate panel, Senator Ayo Akinyelure, who addressed journalists on the matter on Wednesday, said the case against Umar had been reopened.

He said, “There was a petition against the CCT Chairman that he assaulted a young Nigerian, Clement Sargwak. The Senate believes that nobody is above the law. Both the young and the old voted for us to represent their interest in the National Assembly.

“The CCT Chairman infringed on the right of a young Nigerian who had no money to approach the Court, brought his petition to the Senate. Rather than appearing before our Committee, Umar went to Court claiming that the Senate had no right to put him on trial. Punch