PSC: Assault on police orderly ridiculed NPF

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has condemned the assault on a police orderly, Inspector Teju Moses, who was attached to a lawyer and human rights activist, Prof. Zainab Abiola, in Abuja.

The Star had reported that Prof. Abiola, an Mbaise-born activist, assaulted her orderly in company of some accomplices on Tuesday at her residence in Garki, Abuja.

The Police Inspector, according to the Force spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, was assaulted due to her refusal to breach professional ethics by carrying out menial and domestic chores at her house.

The professor and her domestic staff comprising the house maid, one Rebecca Enechido, and a male suspect currently at large, inflicted injuries on Moses.

Reacting to the incident, the PSC, in a statement issued on Friday by its spokesperson, Ikechukwu Ani, said the commission “condemns this act which it considers barbaric and inhuman”.

Ani stated that the assault was “a direct threat to national security and a calculated attempt to ridicule the Nigeria Police Force and what it stands for.

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“While the commission calls for immediate investigation and prosecution of all characters involved in the show of shame, it notes that the operations of the Special Protection Unit SPU, should be reviewed to ensure that only few Nigerians who genuinely deserve such protection are availed this service.

“The commission frowns at the abuse of Police Orderlies by Nigerians who now use them as status symbols or convert them to house helps who clean, cook or do menial jobs.

“It noted that with the security problems ravaging the nation, there is an urgent need to free many police officers loitering in private houses and following ‘big men’ around.

“The commission calls on the police hierarchy to quickly put a stop to this practice and concentrate it’s efforts in policing and protecting a greater number of vulnerable Nigerians,” the PSC spokesman noted.

The Star