Dino Melaye
In a press statement made available to NAIJ.com, Force public relations officer, ACP Jimoh Moshood said the senator representing Kogi west escaped from a lawful custody when hoodlums and miscreants blocked the road.
Senator Dino Melaye has reportedly been rushed to the hospital after allegedly jumping off a moving police van that was conveying him to a court in Lokoja, Kogi state.This incident happened around Area one in Abuja.
The embattled senator representing Kogi west senatorial district under the All Progressives Congress Dino Melaye, has been moved to Lokoja by the operatives of the Nigeria Police drawn from its Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
The representative of Kogi West district and committee chairman on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) at the Senate, Dino Melaye, has reportedly been arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
The police has on Wednesday, March 28, declared Senator Dino Melaye, a lawmaker from Kogi state, wanted. The lawmaker was declared wanted alongside Mohammed Audu, son of a former governor of the state, Abubakar Audu.
Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi state has threatened to sue the Nigeria Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris over the reported escape of two suspects who accused him (Melaye) of being their sponsor and gun supplier.
Reports have emerged that suspected assassins allegedly linked to Melaye and other criminals have reportedly escaped from the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad cell in Kogi state. Details about the escape remain sketchy.
The Nigerian police has issued a message to Senator Dino Melaye asking him to appear before it and comply with the court case against him or risk being declared wanted. The police issued this statement on Saturday, March 25.
Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi west senatorial district, at a recent plenary sitting of the Senate, made a case for the Peace Corps bill following President Muhammadu Buhari’s earlier refusal to sign the bill.
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