Assault On W/Police Inspector By Professor: IGP Orders Prosecution, Calls Her Name-Dropper; Nigerians Slam Force Authority

By Ayodele Oni

The Inspector-General of Police, (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba has strongly condemned the assault of a female Police Officer, Inspector Teju Moses, by her principal in Abuja early in the week.

A Legal practitioner who, also, claims to be a human rights activist, Prof. Zainab Duke Abiola and her domestic staff – a house maid, one Rebecca Enechido,  and a male suspect currently at large, allegedly assaulted the woman police for refusing to carry out an instruction.

But not a few people hold the Police authorities responsible for the assault on, and humiliation of the Police Officer by Duke- Abiola. The questions they are asking are: Who attached a Police Officer, a Woman Inspector, no less, as Oderly to her? Is she entitled to a Police Orderly? Why?

Zainab Duke, a Rivers State indigene, grievously assaulted her Orderly in company of some accomplices on Tuesday 20th September, 2022 at her residence in Garki, Abuja, due to her refusal to breach professional ethics by carrying out menial and domestic chores at her house.

Force spokesman, Olumiyiwa Adejobi said in a statement that “The IGP has directed the express prosecution of the arrested suspects who are currently in Police custody.

“The preliminary investigation shows overwhelming evidence of culpability on the part of the Professor and her domestic staff.

“The IGP has equally tasked the investigative team to ensure that the fleeing suspect is arrested and made to face the wrath of the law.

“It is pertinent to clarify that the suspect, Prof. Zainab, who name-drops the IGP, his family members, and other officers in the top hierarchy of the Force, has no acquaintance with the Police in any form as erroneously peddled on social media.

“The Inspector-General of Police who similarly ordered the withdrawal of all Police personnel attached to the Professor, expressed consternation at the fact that an individual who claims to be an advocate for Human Rights could stoop so low to violate the rights of another individual, a police officer tasked with ensuring her protection.”

Zainab was a Politician. She was in the Social Democratic Party, and had, at least, on one occasion aspired to be the Governor of the State when Ambassador Babagana Kingibe was the Chairman.

She said she was  married to the late business mogul, Chief MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1999 Presidential election, whose name she bears till date. But it is a claim Abiola denied until death.

However, she was once married to a Traditional Ruler, King Alfred Diete- Spiff,  the first Military Governor of Rivers State. State.