I’ll only submit myself if … –Melaye

Embattled Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has written the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to intervene in the rough relationship he is having with police officers.

Melaye said he was ready to submit himself to the police on the condition that he is investigated by police officers from Abuja, and not Kogi.

In a five-page letter written by his counsel, Rickey Tarfa, the lawmaker alleged that police officers in Kogi state were compromised and were controlled by the governor, Yayaha Bello.

Melaye noted that the attempt by police officers to arrest him at the FCT High Court on March 1 was a manifestation of a compromise to abduct and murder him, alleging that the plan was orchestrated by the state governor.

“Our client told us that from information made available to him by his supporters, the intention was to abduct him and whisk him to Kogi state where he would be at the complete mercy of the governor and where plans had been perfected and were being implemented to frame him on spurious charges, arrest and detain him, and then murder him in prison while he is awaiting trial,” his lawyer wrote.

“Our client being a prominent serving senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Chairman, Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Publicity and member of several other senate committees, will not and cannot run from justice, but balks at being delivered directly into the hands of people who have made public threats against his person.

“We anxiously await your intervention sir, to secure the life of our client, and to avoid any breakdown of law and order.”
The police is yet to react to this development.

(Premium Times)

 

 

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