Human Rights Activists, Professor Zainab Duke Abiola has been remanded in the Suleja Custodial Centre after she was arraigned for allegedly assaulting her orderly Inspector Teju Moses.
She was arraigned at a Magistrate court in Abuja on Friday alongside her domestic aide Rebecca Enechido a day after they were arrested by Police.
They were arraigned by the Chief magistrate court in zone 6 for the offenses of
criminal conspiracy, causing criminal hurt without provocation, attempt to commit culpable homicide, and an intentional insult to cause a breach of trust.
The police arrested both women on Thursday after a video showing her injured police orderly went viral.
In the video, the officer is seen in uniform bleeding, seated on the floor, and asking to be taken to the hospital for medical attention.
The police accused her of attempting to commit culpable homicide and breach of trust.
At the arraignment, both women were denied bail and the Magistrate ordered them to be remanded in the Suleja Custodial Centre.
The Magistrate adjourned the case till October 5.
On Thursday, the Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, condemned the assault.
According to a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer CSP Muyiwa Adejobi announcing the arrest of both women, the police were still on the hunt for a male aide of the professor believed to have been involved in the assault.
“The IGP strongly condemned the grievous assault of a female Police Officer, Inspector Teju Moses, by her principal who is a legal practitioner and human rights activist, Prof. Zainab Duke Abiola, and her domestic staff comprising the housemaid, one Rebecca Enechido and a male suspect currently at large,” the statement read in part.
