According to the latest information, Mr Abba was alleged to have assaulted the AVSEC staff when he tried to stop him from searching a visitor who walked through the metal detector activating the alarm. The Abuja Airports Manager in a series of tweets revealed that the assault took place at the International Terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja during the airport procedures when the AVSEC officer was physically assaulted. He breached security procedure by obstructing further searching of a visitor who had just walked through the metal detector as activated the alarms. “The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria strongly condemns this abuse of power and the security process, in our airports, this has been duly escalated. The first one was Former Governor of Zamfara, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari at the Kano airport, followed by the Governor of Adamawa state, Alhaji Umaru Fintiri in Port Harcourt and a newspaper publisher at the Abuja airport.

Source: Nigerian Tribune July 22, 2020 14:37 UTC