*But why must you always run from Police arrest if he is innocent? Senator asked
“This is another one. You shot police officer, who himself apart from being a Nigerian with his own family who depend on him as their bread winner like you are to your own family, but you came on your twitter to still accuse the Nigeria Police institution as the one attempting to assassinate you. Please Senate Dino Melaye, for how long will you continue to rubbish us in this country as a people? Forget that you don’t even have respect and regard any longer for the government and the police,” the respondent who spoke under strict condition of anonymity angrily submitted.
The Nigeria Police said its personnel currently at Sen. Dino Melaye’s residence were there to effect the lawmaker’s arrest over a case of culpable homicide.
Melaye and some suspects were accused of shooting a police officer, Sgt. Danjuma Saliu, attached to 37 Police Mobile Force (PMF) while on duty in Aiyetoro Gbede, Mopa Road in Kogi.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports a statement by the force spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood in Abuja, saying the police would continue to occupy his residence until he surrendered.
“The police operatives will continue to be at the residence of Sen. Dino Melaye until he surrenders himself for arrest,” he said.
Moshood said that the offence for which Melaye was being investigated was capital in nature and not compoundable.
He said that the officer was yet to recover from the gunshot injury he sustained during the attack.
The spokesman alleged Melaye had refused to report to the police command in Kogi to answer the charges in spite of the letter written to the Clerk of the National Assembly.
“The force will not tolerate attack on its personnel by any individual, no matter how highly placed. The law must take its course,”he said.
He said that members of the public would be kept informed on further development in the investigation of the matter.
NAN also reports that a combined team of mobile and regular police personnel have laid siege to the Abuja home of Melaye at 1 :40 p.m on Friday.
In the meantime, the Senator, Dino Melaye has been asked by some angry members of the public why he has the bad culture of running away from police arrest if, as he claims, he is actually innocent.
It will be recalled that the Kogi West senator, who is currently the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate in the zone, had raised an alarm via his twitter handle few months ago claiming that officers of the Nigerian Police attempted to assassinate him on his way to commissioning of one of his constituency projects in the state.
Investigated, the Police in a statement later clarified that it was ironically from Melaye’s convoy gun shuts emanated injuring one of police officers on regular duty security the state.
“Okay, you told us many stories only by you and not by anybody else or any media organisation about how some gunmen shot sporadically into your home spraying your car on you way out and you were publicly videoed rolling on the ground thanking God for saving your life. You raised the alarm over that only on the floor of the Senate. Police rose to that and found you were the one who actually masterminded your own make-believe assassination to implicate the governor of the state.
“The same you, Melaye, raised another alarm again on the floor of the Senate about some concocted killer ‘herdsmen’ killing people in your state. The moment Police raced and arrested five or six men who are criminals in the state and they confessed to be responsible for the killings in the state and not you were the sponsor, the Police needed you to come and clear yourself of the dangerous allegation but you ran away and be raining insults on President Muhammadu Buhari, IGP Ibrahim Idris and APC instead.
“The same you jumped out of police vehicle claiming that you were teargassed when, after you were eventually arrested, you were being taken to Lokoja to face your arraignment in court. For your sake, the whole National Assembly shutdown in protest that you were arrested and the leadership came to the National Hospital Abuja to solidarise with you in spiting the government, its police and the judiciary.
“It was also you, after your lawyer tried to secure your bail presenting different medical reports from the same hospital in few days after the earlier one had cleared you of any ill health, that faked through your colleague senator Ben Bruce the twitter news of your kidnap just because you needed to evade court trial that was supposed to commence against you. Don’t forget that you resurfaced under 12 hours telling the funny story of how you climbed tree to avoid your concocted kidnapper.
“This is another one. You shot police officer, who himself apart from being a Nigerian with his own family who depend on him as their bread winner like you are to your own family, but you came on your twitter to still accuse the Nigeria Police institution as the one attempting to assassinate you. Please Senate Dino Melaye, for how long will you continue to rubbish us in this country as a people? Forget that you don’t even have respect and regard any longer for the government and the police,” the respondent who spoke under strict condition of anonymity angrily submitted.
