{"id":107397,"date":"2023-08-31T04:48:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T03:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=107397"},"modified":"2023-08-31T04:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T03:48:34","slug":"senator-abbo-ordered-to-pay-n50m-damages-for-assaulting-divorcee-in-abuja-sex-toy-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/senator-abbo-ordered-to-pay-n50m-damages-for-assaulting-divorcee-in-abuja-sex-toy-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Abbo ordered to pay N50m damages for assaulting divorcee in Abuja sex toy shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has affirmed the N50 million damages that was awarded against Senator Elisha Abbo for assaulting a lady, Ms. Osimibibra Warmate, in a sex toy shop in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>A High Court of Federal Capital Territory had ordered the lawmaker who represents Adamawa North, to pay damages over the incident that occurred in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dissatisfied with the verdict, Senator Abbo approached the appellate court to set aside the judgment.<\/p>\n<p>However, the appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel led by Justice Jamilu Tukur, dismissed the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The panel said it found no reason to dislodge the verdict the high court delivered on September 29, 2020, following a fundamental right enforcement suit that was lodged by Ms. Warmate.<\/p>\n<p>The appellate court held that trial Justice Samira Bature was right in upholding Ms. Warmate\u2019s case and awarding damages against the lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>It dismissed the Appellant\u2019s argument that the suit that led to the damages that was awarded against him, was not properly commenced.<\/p>\n<p>While also dismissing Senator Abbo\u2019s contention that he was denied fair hearing, the appellate court faulted his argument that Ms. Warmate\u2019s claim that he slapped her, pulled her hair and dragged her out of the sex toy shop, was only a case of simple assault and not rights violation.<\/p>\n<p>The court, aside from upholding the N50m damages, equally awarded another N500, 000 in favour of Ms. Warmate, even as it resolved all five issues that were raised in the appeal, against the Appellant.<\/p>\n<p>In its lead judgment that was delivered, Danlami Senchi, the appellate court held that Senator Abbo\u2019s appeal marked: CA\/ABJ\/945\/2020, was bereft of any merit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision of the trial court in the award of N50m against the Appellant and in favour of the Respondent was proper,\u201d Justice Senchi held, adding that going by the quality of evidence that was presented by Ms Warmate, including a medical report and video recordings of the incident, the decision of the trial court could not be tampered with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conduct of the Appellant is sufficiently outrageous to merit the punishment as the facts of the case disclosed flagrant disobedience of the law, especially that the Appellant is an elected Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,\u201d the court held.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has affirmed the N50 million damages that was awarded against Senator Elisha Abbo for assaulting a lady, Ms. Osimibibra Warmate, in a&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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