The Nigerian Police have instituted a criminal case against the Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, Abdulmumuni Danga and is to be arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja on a seven-count charge of rape following his alleged assault of one Elizabeth Oyeniyi earlier this ye
Oyeniyi had accused Danga of brutalising her after he allegedly raped her multiple times on March 29.
The 23-year-old said she was targeted after posting a comment about the commissioner’s stepsister, who has been her friend for years, on Facebook.
Oyeniyi alleged that Danga personally flogged her and said he could have killed her but for her young son who was with her.
She said the commissioner then stripped her while at least 15 men, who worked for him, watched.
The suspected thugs also allegedly filmed her nude as she was being whipped and humiliated.
After the attack, Danga drove her to a hotel close to the Kogi State House in Lokoja, the state capital, where he allegedly forcefully raped her three times overnight, the victim claimed.
While the water resources commissioner had denied the allegations, activists, rights groups, including Dorothy Njemanze Foundation, mounted pressure on the police for an investigation.
The group also called on the Kogi State government to sanction Danga.
Afterwards, the state had promised to launch an investigation into the matter.
Danga had appeared in the police headquarters in Abuja on June 2 and July 5 for interrogation.
He made statements on the two visits.
According to the documents for service, Danga was charged on seven counts, including rape, brutality, coercion and torture at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Judicial Division.
He is to be arraigned alongside one Success Omadivi, 35, who was also indicted in the course of investigation.
The case filed on September 4 will be prosecuted by the police on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, this paper learnt.
The offences leveled against Danga include falsification of documents and threatening medical officer to forge test result, having carnal knowledge of Ms Onyeniyi without her consent, inflicting physical injury and torture by flogging.
All are contrary to multiple sections of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.
“That you ABDULMUMI_JNI DANGA ‘M’ with other persons now at large; on or about the 29th day of March, 2020 at Lokoja; within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did falsify an audio recording purporting same to be the audio of Dr. Chinonyerem Welle, Medical Director, Police Hospital, Area 1, Garki, Abuja saying that she issued medical report for the rape and assault of Elizabeth Onyeniyi ‘F’ unlawfully; and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 7 of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.”
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