Ousmane Sonko set to appear before judge on Wednesday after ‘illegal’ immunity removal

Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has is scheduled to come before a judge on Wednesday as his rape rigmarole festers.

According Senegalese outlet Leral.net on Monday, lawyer Khoureychi Ba announced the summons of his client Sonko. The MP will be before the 8th Cabinet examining magistrate on Wednesday at 9 a.m, the outlet said.

It comes even as Sonko claimed the removal of his constitutional immunity was illegal and then going on to reject the summons.

Sonko has in the past weeks been trying to dig himself out of allegations by a woman that he repeated rape her at a massage parlour in Dakar.