Runner way Kogi Commissioner Charged for Raping & Brutalising Lady Over Facebbok Post ~ Broom Home

The Nigeria Police Force has charged Mr Abdulmumuni Danga, Kogi State Water Resources Commissioner, for assaulting and raping a lady named Elizabeth over a Facebook post.

This is coming five months after the incident took place and three months after police first called the commissioner for questioning.

Danga has been convicted on a total of seven counts including rape for violence, coercion and torture.

The Commissioner is charged alongside one Omadivi Progress, and they are to be arraigned at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja Judicial Division.

Recall that The Gazette Nigeria had reported that Danga was invited to be interviewed by Governor Yahaya Bello at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Gender Unit, Force Intelligence Bureau, FCID, Abuja on 2 June 2020 and released following pressure.

The case will be pursued by the police on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria in the indictment sheet signed by ACP Effiong Asuquo, Esq, Prosecuting Attorney for police.

He has also been prosecuted with falsifying records and threatening to forge test reports with medical officers.

In count one of the charges, Danga was charged without her permission with carnal knowledge of Elizabeth Onyeniyi; and thus committed an offence contrary to section 1 of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.

In count two of the charges, police said Danga now at large with other people; Elizabeth was deliberately caused physical harm in Lokoja by flogging her with electric cable wire.