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Kogi commissioner charged with rape

KOGI STATE commissioner for Water Resources, Abdulmumuni Danga has been charged to court for alleged raped

Police on Tuesday in Abuja perfected charges against Danga for the alleged rape and brutalisation of one Elizabeth Oyeniyi, earlier this year, in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.

The police filed a seven-count charge against the commissioner at a Federal High Court in Abuja.

The commissioner is to be arraigned alongside one Success Omadivi, 35.

The offences leveled against Danga include falsification of documents and threatening a medical officer to forge a test result, having carnal knowledge of Ms Onyeniyi without her consent, inflicting physical injury and torture by flogging.

Ms Oyeniyi had accused Danga of brutalising her after allegedly raping her repeatedly on March 29.

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