Operatives of the Nigeria Police, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) are reportedly moving embattled senator representing Kogi West at the National Assembly, Dino Melaye to Lokoja. Senator Dino Melaye.
Melaye is also expected to be paraded later this evening among other hardened criminals who implicated him in the crime that necessitated his arrest.
Vanguard reports that the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District was taken into SARS detention facility, located opposite the old Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN junction along the Area 1 expressway, Abuja, and was later moved out around 12 noon today in police vehicle heavily manned by SARS operatives.
Vanguard source in the police said the parade of Melaye and other criminal suspects, alongsides the re-arrested suspects who had escaped from prison cell, is to be conducted by the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Aremu Adediran, a Superintendent of Police (SP) on behalf of his immediate boss, Jimoh Moshood, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, who is currently in China on a course. Aledeh recalls that Senator Melaye was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Monday, April 23.
“I have just been arrested at the international wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport on my way to Morocco for an official engagement sponsored by the Federal Govt after checking in,” the Kogi West lawmaker wrote on Twitter. He was later released after a stand-off that lasted about two and a half hours.
