The claim that the Village Head of Dan Gulam in Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Umar Ibrahim, raped, impregnated and infected a lady with HIV has drawn his reaction.
Ibrahim has been bedevilled by the allegation that has developed in charges pressed against him with a letter to that effect addressed to the Secretary of Dutse Emirate Council, Dutse Emir’s Palace, by Senior State Counsel in Jigawa State Ministry of Justice, Kabiru Abdullah Esq., titled: “Notification of arraignment of Umar Ibrahim (Village Head of DanGulam) on the offence of rape contrary to section 3 (1) (A and D) of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law 2021”.
The embattled monarch in turn dragged his accusers: the purported victim, her father, and one Sule Umar before Upper Shari’a Court Gwaram on defamation grounds.
On the occasion of an interview he granted Daily Trust, he pushed back at the accusation, saying, “They are trying to blackmail me. That is why they falsified the allegation that I impregnated. I didn’t know the girl, I have never met her even once in my life.
“I have HIV for the past 10 years when I married an infected widow. That is why they are saying I infected that girl, but I swear I didn’t do it.”
