The embattled senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, was on Thursday brought to the Senior Magistrate Court 2, Lokoja, Kogi State, on a hospital stretcher, by the police.
Melaye, who was granted bail by an Abuja Magistrate court, on Wednesday, after being arraigned for attempted suicide and escape from lawful custody, was brought into the court premises in an ambulance, at exactly 9.15am, to face charges of criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms,, kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, political thuggery and other violent crimes in Kogi State.
The Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Aremu Adeniran (SP), on April 24 2018, while addressing pressmen, in Lokoja, said two suspects, Kabiru Salisu aka Osama (31) and Nuhu Salisu aka Small (25), who were arrested on January 19, 2018 at Ogojueje, in Dekina LGA of Kogi State, confessed to various crimes, some of which they linked to the senator.
Both suspects who later escaped from the ‘A’ Division police custody in Lokoja, along with four others, were later re-arrested.
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Unconfirmed reports from inside the court premises, has it that the charges preferred against Senator Melaye, include abetting their escape from police custody.
Pressmen were ordered out of the court premises before their arraignment, but a handful were later allowed entry, due to what the authorities identified as space constraint.
The lead government prosecutor, Mr. Alex Iziyon, was in the court earlier, while Mike Ezekhome (SAN), arrived later.
-The Nation
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