Nigeria's youngest senator, Elisha Abbo, 41, has been captured on camera brutally assaulting a woman at an adult shop in Abuja.
In the scenario which sears through the heart of many Nigerians, the senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, pounced on the woman when she tried to appeal to him not to physically abuse the owner of the sex toy store whom he claimed insulted him.
Abbo, a former Senior Special Assistant to Governor Murtala Nyako, said the store-owner called him a drunk.
A video clip which has since went viral showed the member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), repeatedly slapping the victims in the presence of police officers he had invited while they stood akimbo letting the episode play out.
The incident happened May 11, exactly three months after Abbo was elected senator and one month before he was sworn in.
Scooper learnt that the assault was reported on May 14 at the Maitama Area Command Headquarters on Nile Street, but the police told the victim to go get Abbo’s telephone number or they would not be able to do anything about it.
Explaining what transpired between Abbo and the shopowner, eyewitnesses narrated that he "entered the shop at about 6:00 p.m. on May 11, a Saturday, with three young women to purchase adult toys."
"But shortly after they began shopping for the toys, one of the three girls brought in by Mr Abbo started throwing up. She vomited multiple times, prompting the shopowner to remark that the woman should have vomited outside and not inside her shop, especially since she was not a child."
"Mr Abbo, who was said to be agitated by the sudden illness of one of his girls, reportedly accused the shopowner of poisoning the store’s airconditioner.
"The shopowner’s argument that if the airconditioner had been contaminated others in the shop would have also taken ill further angered Mr Abbo, and the two began exchanging words over the matter."
Premium Times reported that the assaulted woman, who is nursing a child, was taken to a hospital, where she was treated for eye inflammation and other injuries she sustained during the attack.
Abbo did not cover the medical bill. Neither did he show sympathy or reach out to the woman to apologise.
Instead, he was said to have returned to the shop to see whether a CCTV footage of the incident existed.
It was learnt that Abbo was told that the CCTV in the shop was not functioning. He was said to have been very worried about the incident, threatening to deal with them if the footage of his violence ever surfaced.
The victim and her lawyer reported the matter at the Maitama Area Command since May 14, but the police have continued to stall, saying they did not know how to contact Mr Abbo.
The victim and her lawyer were said to have demanded apology from Mr Abbo. They also want him to settle the medical bill and desist from further threats of physical harm against the woman.
They also wanted a criminal investigation and possible prosecution of Mr Abbo for his action.
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