By Chris Agbo
On Sunday, the 19th day of April, 2020, Barrister Kassim Lawal accompanied by his niece on a request from renowned NGO for the persons with disabilities, Disability Rights Advocacy Center(DRAC) decided to show true patriotism and love by distributing food items (as palliatives) to some persons with disabilities resident in Kubwa, Abuja.
According to Barrister Kassim who is the Chairman of Association of Lawyers with disabilities ( ALDIN) FCT chapter and the publicity secretary, National Association of the Blind (NAB) FCT chapter, as I was coming out from the house of one of our members which was my last delivery in that fateful evening at about 7:20 pm around Bauchi Road, off 2-1, beside Infini Mart Supermarket, Kubwa and having mounted the motorcycle hired for that purpose, some people stopped us and started beating me and the bike man. I didn’t know that they were policemen, it was the bike man that informed me. I was explaining but they didn’t care to listen. They continued beating me as I was explaining introducing myself on top of my voice. It was when they saw that I was already bleeding that the beating stopped. I was on the ground still explaining, I didn’t even know that they have left. It was the bikeman that informed me that they have already left. I was also told that they were carrying a dark blue van. My niece who was with me couldn’t take pictures, pick the number of any of them or their vehicle number because it was already dark.
I called the police control number to register my complain and they told me to report the case to any nearest police station which I reported the incident at Phase 4 police station.
I proceeded to hospital to seek medical attention to the injuries inflicted on me by these heartless policemen.
Mr. Lawal, who is also a member of the Abuja branch of the NBA is seeking justice to what the police did to him as he was performing a duty to help humanity.
