Police filed formal charges of rape against Mr Abdulmumuni Danga, Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, who assaulted and raped Miss Elizabeth Oyeniyi over a FacebookPost Before High Court In Abuja.
OBSERVERS TIMES previously reported that, Danga was questioned at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Gender Unit, Force Intelligence Bureau, FCID, Abuja.
The Seven count charges were filed by the police authority on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, OBSERVERS TIMES recalled how Elizabeth Oyeniyi, had accused Abdulmumini Danga, Kogi state commissioner of water resources, of raping her.
In a viral video, Oyeniyi said the commissioner abducted her over a Facebook post she made against him.
She further accused the commissioner of making her record a video to recant her Facebook claims.
In a desperate attempt to sweep this crime under carpent, Yahaya Bello, governor of the state, ordered an investigation into the matter.
In a statement, Kingsley Fanwo, the state’s commissioner for information, said the governor ordered the investigation so the truth can be uncovered.
“The attention of the Kogi State Government has been drawn to the allegations of assault, battery and other serious crimes leveled against the above-named individual who is a serving Commissioner in Kogi State,” the statement read.
Accordingly, the Governor has ordered accelerated investigation into the matter and hereby assures both accuser and accused, as well as the general public, that the whole truth will be uncovered and justice served as appropriate.
We give our word that if these allegations are proven, everyone found culpable will be brought to justice.”
Till this date, nothing has been heard of the so called state government accelerated investigation as the said commissioners was seeing attending state executive council meeting and other functions of the state government.