The lawmaker was granted bail by Senior Magistrate Abdullahi Ilellah, after he was arraigned by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police at Zuba Magistrate Court, Abuja.

The Adamawa lawmaker was granted bail in the sum of N5million and the sureties must have verifiable addresses within the Federal Capital Territory.

The case has since been adjourned to July 22nd for hearing.

Senator Abbo was arraigned on Monday on a one-count of assault which he pleaded not guilty.

He was arraigned after a video of him assaulting a woman went viral.

Abbo is in the eye of a storm for attacking and beating up a woman who tried to prevent him and others with him from assaulting another woman in a sex toy shop in Abuja.

The viral video of the assault sparked outrage with many Nigerians calling for his prosecution.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Senate has set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the case. Six men and two women were chosen as members of the committee which will be headed by Senator Sam Egwu.

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Senator Abbo was granted bail at about noon on Friday after meeting the conditions for his bail.

The police, however, did not reveal the specific terms of the bail.

Abbo had turned himself in on Thursday evening following an invitation by the police headquarters at the FCT, over the assault of a nursing mother at a sex toy shop in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

A video which went viral all over social media had shown the lawmaker hitting a lady following some misunderstanding at the adult toy store.

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) M.A Adamu, had earlier ordered a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances surrounding the assault.

According to the IGP, the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, CP Bala Ciroma is to provide a personal and round-the-clock supervision of every facet of the investigation including the forensic analysis of the video currently in circulation as well as the actions and inactions of the policeman seen in the video footage.

It also remains nebulous if the lawmaker will be charged to court.

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According to the information scooped from Channels Television,  this development was confirmed by the FCT Police Commissioner, Mr Bala Ciroma,  in a telephone interview.  Ciroma disclosed that the Senator is being detained to enable detectives complete investigation on the alleged assault.

The lawmaker,Abbo  was spotted in an adult toy shop in a video exclusively released by Premium Times on Monday.

He was seen hitting a woman after she pleaded with him not to physically assault the shop owner whom he accused of insulting him.

The viral video on social media sparked outrage with many Nigerians calling for his prosecution and urging the Senate to also discipline him.

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One begins to have a rethink on the reputation and integrity of some of the characters that constitute the 9th assembly.

Despite the efforts so far made by the youngest senator of the 9th Assembly to justify his utterly barbaric and shameful behaviour, his defence has not changed the narrative in any way. A psychoanalysis of the Senator’s Parental Background and his Social Achievements at age 41 showed that luck is truly on its side.

He defeated the then incumbent Senator Bimta Massi Garba to become the one to represent Adamawa North Senatorial District on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He might be eminently qualified by all standards to run for the senate position, that being an existential reality is undisputable. But this has not immune him against criminal culpability in any way. What this means is that vying and wining an election into the senate doesn’t automatically makes one qualified to be called distinguished senator.

Even at the point of provocation, he ought to have shown some levels of emotional intelligence by ignoring the intolerable antics of the young lady or he ought to have allowed the police officer invited to take appropriate action rather than beating the woman in the presence of the police officer.

Instead of taking the rightful decision by allowing the police officer acts justifiably within the purview of law, it was a case of raining slaps, molesting and subjecting the lady to public ridicule as shown by the CCTV footage. If truly the Senator is convinced that the Adult Toy Shop owner had doctored the viral video, he would do his personality and social reputation good by approaching the court of law to seek redress immediately.

Issuing press statement alone is not enough to exonerate him of culpability. Except he presents counter – evidence of his innocence, the police authorities should be adjudged to have acted right by giving an order for the arrest of Senator Elisha Ishaku Abbo. He should equally be charged for assault and battery immediately, once prima facie case is established against him.

Whatever might have prompted the young lady to have called him a drunk, he has no right to have resulted to self-help. From third party perspective, I could not fathom the kind of argument that might have eschewed between the youngest Senator in town and the lady to have given the nursing mother an effrontery to call Senator a drunk, if he had behaved gently and conducted himself well when the two of them had encounter that day.

By the Senator’s admission, one could see that the powerful and wealthy persons do abuse the opportunity and access they have to security agents. Nigerians deserve to know the police officer in whose presence the Senator beat and molested the young lady without any effort to call the Senator to order or get him arrested.

Because the conduct of this single Senator as a way of shaming the entire Senate, the Senate owes the nation the duty of carrying out thorough investigation of immediate and remote cause of altercation between a Senator and attendant of an Adult Toy Store leading to the current uproar.

It should not stop there, appropriate sanctions need to be meted unto the culprit to prove to the whole world that the 9th assembly is peopled by persons with sound acumen. With the ugly incidence, people have been given the reason to doubt the sanity of some of our elected Representatives.

While appreciating the prompt action of the Senate with the decision to set up an investigation committee in order to address the highly embarrassing incident. The police must equally be seen to have satisfactorily played its statutory roles by inviting the assailant for interrogation and prosecution, if need be.

The Inspector General of police Abubakar Muhammed Adamu, according to report has ordered for the arrest of the senator for necessary interrogation and probable prosecution. He must not stop there, the IGP must get to the root of the matter. By being assertive in handling the matter, the IGP would have done the nation good by deed and action and this will make it sink into the brains of highly powerful persons particularly political office holders that nobody is above the law.

The alibi put forward by Senator Abbo that the incident happened before he was elected Senator was flimsy and insubstantial giving the fact that the Premium Times that first reported the matter said it happened May 11 nearly three months after he became Senator.

Even if it happened at the eve of his 41 years birthday’s anniversary, the timing does not in any way cause his exoneration from the heinous crime of assault and battery.
Until the matter is properly investigated and Senator Elisha Ishaka Abbo cleared of any excessiveness, infraction or culpability of the allegation of assault against him, it is my considered opinion that he should cease to add ‘distinguished’ to his own title as Senator.

By Rahaman Onike Public Affairs Analyst writes from Oyo, Oyo State

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