The hooded security operatives who stormed an
Abuja hospital and forcibly took away Dino Melaye have moved the ailing senator
to a medical facility run by the State Security Service, the secret police said
late Friday.
Peter Afunanya, a spokesperson for the SSS,
said in a statement to Premium Times that Mr Melaye was brought to the SSS by
the police for treatment.
“The aim of bringing him to the Service’s
facility is to complement Police efforts in giving the Senator a deserved
medical attention,” Mr Afunanya said. “The Service, in line with medical ethics
and spirit of inter-agency cooperation, accepted him.”
The disclosure comes hours Mr Melaye was
forcibly moved from a police hospital, also in Abuja, by plainclothes and
hooded men whom witnesses suspected were security operatives. The development
sparked immediate speculation that the controversial senator had been abducted.
The police later issued a statement saying they
moved Mr Melaye to another hospital run by the SSS. They also rejected claims
that the senator was abducted.
Mr Melaye turned himself to the police on
January 4, bringing an end to a week-long siege that began on December 28 at
his residence in the posh Maitama neighbourhood.
He was subsequently taken into custody but
moved to a hospital amidst indications his health had deteriorated as he
reportedly hid in a basement at his house while the siege lasted.
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