The Nigeria police has charged to court Mr Abdulmumuni Danga, Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, for assaulting and raping a woman named Elizabeth over a Facebook post.
This is coming five months after the event happened and three months after the commissioner was first invited for questioning by the police.
Danga was charged on a seven-count charge including rape to brutality, coercion and torture.
He is charged alongside one Success Omadivi and that they are to be arraigned at the supreme court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Judicial Division.
Recall that NaijaGistReporter had published that Danga was invited for questioning on June 2, 2020 at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Gender Unit, Force Intelligence Bureau, FCID, Abuja and was released after pressure from Governor Yahaya Bello.
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In the blotter signed by ACP Effiong Asuquo, Esq, Prosecuting Counsel for the police, the case are going to be prosecuted by the police on behalf of the federal of Nigeria.
He was also charged for falsifying documents and threatening medic to forge test result.
In count one among the fees , Danga was accused of getting sexual intercourse of Elizabeth Onyeniyi without her consent; and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.
In count two of the fees , the police said Danga with other persons now at large; in Lokoja willfully inflicted physical injury on Elizabeth by flogging her with electric cable wire.
Other charges reads, “That you ABDULMUMUNI DANGA, SUCCESS OMADIVI 'F' 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 coerce one Elizabeth Oyeniyi to kneel down by torturing her; and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 3 Of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.
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“That you ABDULMUMUNI DANGA, SUCCESS OMADIVI 'F' 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 create or falsify a Facebook chat purporting same to be a talk between Elizabeth Onyeniyi 'F' and unknown person where Elizabeth Oyeniyi 'F' confirmed that she wasn't raped; and there was no test done at the hospital because the doctor was scared to issue report in order that she is going to not lose her job; and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 7 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 sound recording purporting same to be the audio of Dr. Chinonyerem Welle, Medical Director, Police Hospital, Area 1, Garki, Abuja saying that she issued 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.
“That you ABDULMUMUNI DANGA 'M', SUCCESS OMADIVI 'F' 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 sound recording purporting same to be a woman lecture another female saying that Elizabeth Onyeniyi 'F' confessed to her that she wasn't raped by the Defendant, ABDULMUMIJNI DANGA 'M' but that it had been Natasha that asked her to mention she was raped; and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 7 Of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.
“That you ABDULMUMUNI 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 sound recording purporting same to be the audio of Dr. Chinonyerem Welle, Medical Director, Police Hospital, Area 1, Garki, Abuja saying that she issued 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.”
The victim had during a posted on her Facebook wall urged the commissioner to help his kid sister and other members of his family financially.
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Speaking with NaijaGistReporter, Elizabeth said she decided to form the Facebook post following series of complaints by the commissioner’s sister to her.
The post didn't go down well with the commissioner, who hired thugs to seize Elizabeth from her range in Lokoja together with her three-year-old son.
“On getting there, they flogged me. He flogged us himself, stripped me naked and made a video of me threatening to post it when next I make any public comment about it,” she said.
Narrating how the commissioner raped her, she said Danga held her captive and took her to a hotel in the dark where he forcefully had sex together with her .
She expressed fear for her life, revealing that she and her relations were receiving threats from loyalists and thugs of the commissioner.
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