Nearly a month after he beat a Nigerian, John Adeniyi, into a state of coma, a German staff of a construction company, Rainhardt Fleischer, has been deported from the country following the insistence of the leadership of the Senate that he be prosecuted for the attack within the premises of the Senate Building.
A middle ground was, however, reached following a letter of apology from the man agement of the company to the Senate leadership for the misdemeanour of the German, who had gained notoriety for attacking junior staff of his company whenever they ran foul of him.
A report written by the police was said to have indicted him and pushed for his prosecution for what was described as ‘serial violence”.
A Senate source told PANA on Wednesday that the German’s international passport was returned to him, after which the police ensured that he was ‘monitored to the airport’ and flown out.
‘It was not clear if the police did this secretly but they made sure he left the country,’ the source said.
Also, the beaten Senate Building staff, who slipped into coma, is said to have fully recovered.
‘We made sure that he was returned to his post in the National Assembly and we are watching to see if they will victimise him because we know if a Nigerian ha d done what he did, it would have been a different thing, he is so lucky he got off so lightly because the Senate President wanted the full length of the law applied in his case,’ the source added.
Sometime in October, Adeniyi had resumed for work in the Senate Building of the National Assembly, but by evening, he was lying in coma in a hospital in Abuja, no thanks for a kick to his groin from 52 year-old Fleischer.
Fleisher was subsequently arrested and he spent the night at the Police Post of the National Assembly as the Senate leadership waded in and demanded for a full report on the attack by the expatriate, working for the Germany-based construction company, which built the Senate Building and is maintaining the structure.
The police insisted that the international passport of the suspect be released to it before the German could be released.
According to eye-witnesses at the scene of incidence, Fleischer, a supervisor, conducting routine check, saw Adeniyi standing and sought to know from him why he was not doing anything.
As Adeniyi made to explain, the German demanded for his identity card, which the latter declined to surrender.
Fleishcher allegedly pulled out his camera to take the photograph of the technician but the local staff resisted the move.
In a flash, the German kicked Adeniyi in a kung-fu style and the Nigerian collapsed and hit the ground convulsing.
Nigerians rushed to take on the expatriate until securitymen and policemen at the National Assembly moved in and prevented the infuriated staff of the Assembly.
The German was arrested and detained, while the injured local staff was rushed to the Julius Berger Clinic, according to eyewitnesses.