Nigeria, May 6 -- Four months after a 16-year old secondary school student accused the Ogun State Commissioner of Environment, Abiodun Abdul-Balogun, of attempting to rape her, the police and the state government are yet to act.

PREMIUM TIMES in January reported how a Senior Secondary 3 student, Barakat Melojuekun, alleged that the commissioner fondled her breasts and recited incantations to scare her in his apartment on December 31, 2020.

She said her screams forced Mr Abdul-Balogun to jump off her and offer her N2,000 to shut up.

The state police command later invited the commissioner for interrogation in early January but has failed to update the public on its investigation.

The allegations against the commissioner elicited outrage...