Assault: CCT Chairman Absent At Senate Committee Hearing

• A security guard had claimed he was assaulted by Umar and a policeman attached to him when he informed him that his car was wrongly parked

The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar was on Tuesday absent at the continuation of the hearing by the Senate committee on ethics.

The committee on ethics is investigating Umar’s alleged assault of a security guard, Clement Sagwak at the popular Banex Plaza in Abuja.

The counsel to the CCT who is attended the hearing told the committee that Umar is ill and is out of the country.

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The committee is therefore giving the CCT June 7 to appear before its members.

Umar at an earlier hearing had appealed to the committee to give him a week to study the allegations.

The Chairman of the Committee, Ayo Akinyelure, said the committee resolved to give Umar two weeks – till May 18, to reappear before the committee.

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