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Lumumba assault file back with DPP – Crime Chief
After a long wait, Presidential Adviser Odinga Lumumba may finally have his day in
ODINGA LUMUMBA
court sometime this week.
Lumumba is accused of assaulting female Returning Officer Onika Beckles on November 28 last -Elections Day.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told this newspaper yesterday that the file on the matter was back with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), following additional investigations by the police.
There were concerns that the matter would have been swept under the carpet.
Beckles was allegedly forced to call in the police to an Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt Polling Station after Lumumba allegedly verbally abused her and also shoved her against a wall.
It is alleged that the People’s Progressive Party candidate also grabbed the camera phone from an Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) Observer who was recording the altercation and threw it to the floor, destroying it in the process.
ONIKA BECKLES
He subsequently apologized to the Observer and later replaced the phone, as well as offering an explanation that he was angry at the time.
If he does appear in court for assault, Lumumba will be the second government official to have to do so within a month.
He will follow Information Liaison in the Office of the President, Kwame Mc Coy, who was charged with assaulting a man in the run-up to the last General and Regional Elections.
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