The Ogun State Police Command said it would proceed with the investigation into the allegations against the Commissioner for Environment, Abiodun Abudu – Balogun.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi , disclosed 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The PPRO said despite that the victim’ s family had officially withdrawn the case against the Commissioner , the command will go ahead with the case .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.
“ 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. ”
