Sexual Harassment: Commissioner Must Be Investigated, Police Insist

Ogun State Police Command has chosen to continue with the investigation into the allegations against the Commissioner for Environment, Abiodun Abudu-Balogun.

Ekohotblog gathered that the Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had ordered that the case be transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department at the Police headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, the state capital.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who made this known said despite that the victim’s family had officially withdrawn the case against the Commissioner, the command will go ahead with the case.

He said, “The father of the victim has no loco standing for him to tell the police that he’s no longer pressing charges against the Commissioner because he is not our complainant.

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“He is not the person that was directly involved in the case. The victim is his daughter and even the daughter herself cannot withdraw the case because she is underage.

“Secondly, the case is an offense committed against the state, so they are no longer complainants, it is the Commissioner of Police versus the suspect (Abudu-Balogun).

“They are just witnesses in the case. So the police are going on with investigations to confirm the authenticity of the claims.

“The CP has directed that the case should be transferred to the State CID for proper investigations, so their position is immaterial.

“We cannot conclude that the case will be charged to court until when we confirm that the offense was actually committed. If the offense was actually committed, we will not hesitate to charge it court and see the case to a logical conclusion.”