Kogi lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye, has been arrested and detained by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Abuja on Tuesday.
The police arrested Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi) after a 24-hour siege to his home in Abuja.
The lawmaker’s arrest comes a day after he was arrested by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, while he was on his way to Morocco for an official engagement on Monday, April 23.
Early on Tuesday, he had announced that he would pay a visit to police authorities after officers raided his Abuja home on Monday and his police escorts were withdrawn.
However, despite his willingness to turn himself in, a report by Vanguard revealed that Senator Melaye was forcefully arrested on Tuesday and might have briefly struggled with the operatives who carried out the arrest.
The report also revealed that the lawmaker was taken to the SARS detention facility located just opposite the old Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN junction along the Area 1 expressway, a detention facility reputed to house hardened criminals.
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