The police have released Abdulmumuni Danga, Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, who assaulted and raped a lady over a facebook post after pre
The police have released Abdulmumuni Danga, Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, who assaulted and raped a lady over a facebook post after pressure from governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi. He would however, be charged to court within three weeks.
Recall that SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the police was under pressure by Bello to release Danga who was being interrogated at the office of the deputy commissioner of police, Gender Unit, Force Intelligence Bureau, FCID, Abuja. He wrote a statement after intense persuasion from the police.
After about four hours at the FCID, the police released Danga, allowing him to walk freely out of the station without assurance of him returning when summoned, a source at the police FCID said.
The victim identified as Elizabeth, had in a post on her Facebook wall urged the commissioner to assist his kid sister and other members of his family financially. Elizabeth said she decided to make the Facebook post following series of complaints by the commissioner’s sister to her.
The post did not go down well with the commissioner, who hired thugs to seize Elizabeth from her home in Lokoja 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 at night where he forcefully had sex with her. She expressed fear for her life, revealing that she and her family members were receiving threats from loyalists and thugs of the commissioner.
