Barring any information to the contrary, it would seem that a female police officer, Inspector Teju Moses was a victim of the alleged assault
from an unlikely source: the person she was officially detailed to guard and protect.
According to media reports that have not been controverted, Inspector Teju Moses was allegedly assaulted by her principal, Professor Zainab Abiola and her domestic staff, comprising the housemaid and a male suspect at large. If the report is true, this incident is one too many and unacceptable. Police officers should not be subjected to that kind of treatment more so by citizens they have been assigned to protect.
Whoever carried out the alleged assault on Moses engaged in an act of intimidation, violence and recklessness, which violates the dignity of the human person. It is simply a wrong show of power, wrong application of position and a desperate hang on to the memory of the oppression of the civilian class during military rule, which is at variance with democratic ideals. It is alarming that such an incident could take place under a principal described as a Professor and rights activist.
Why should a single Nigerian have seven personal security staff as is the case of a Senator? Even some traditional leaders have orderlies. What about the over 200 million Nigerians left largely unprotected? How many law enforcement officers are left to secure them after posting many officers as private orderlies?
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