The Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, will today be strangely arraigned before a State High Court in Lokoja for offences only best known to the Nigeria Police headquarters in Abuja.
This was made known today in a press statement issued by David Agunbiade, Head of operation, SDM advocacy Group international.
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The arraignment is slated for late evening this Wednseday in order to make fulfillment of bail conditions impossible for the lawmaker’s legal team, hence he will be remanded in prison.
Reliable Government House sources in Lokoja revealed that the state government has made an arrangement with a yet-to-be identified judge in the Kogi State judiciary to try Melaye with a directive to treat the popular Senator as an “enemy of the state”.
It will be recalled that the authorities of the Nigeria Police had reportedly perfected a plan to move Melaye to Lokoja to face trial over alleged illegal firearms possession and arming of political thugs, even when the case is billed for hearing in Abuja as directed by the acting chief judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdul Kafarati.
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Save for last-minute change of plan, Melaye will be ferried to the Kogi State capital today Wednesday in a police helicopter after same attempt to transport the popular lawmaker to Lokoja last week Tuesday failed.
Melaye is currently admitted at the National Hospital Abuja after sustaining injuries while resisting his forced movement to Lokoja by the operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), saying he had been marked for assassination.
He is the first Nigerian lawmaker to survive a recall move, which was apparently instigated and heavily financed by the Kogi State government.
Reliable sources at the Nigeria Police headquarters in Abuja said the plan to take Melaye to Lokoja for the second time will take place tomorrow and the means have changed from land transport to air transport for “security reasons”.
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It was gathered that the latest move by the Police is contrary to medical advice from the authorities of the National Hospital in Abuja, a similar scenario that played out last weekTuesday night at Zankli Hospital where Melaye was initially hospitalised, a development which led to the arrest of a medical doctor and Melaye’s younger brother.
Sources at the hospital confided in our reporter that Melaye is not medically fit to be taken away to any location for now.
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