The
Nigeria Police Force has asked the lawmaker representing Kogi West in the
National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye, to surrender himself for arrest and
investigation for attempted culpable homicide.
It
stated that the police operatives deployed in his house with an arrest warrant
will not leave his Abuja residence until they apprehended him.
The
Force spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, said in a statement on Monday that Melaye had
repeated spurned several invitations asking him to report for an investigation
into the alleged shooting of one Sgt. Danjuma Saliu, attached to 37 Police
Mobile Force while on stop-and-search duty along Aiyetoro Gbede, Mopa Road in
Kogi State.
He
explained that Melaye and his armed thugs shot and injured Saliu who is
currently on admission at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.
Police
investigators, he said, had invited Melaye through a letter of invitation dated
23rd July, 2018, signed by the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Police Command,
and addressed to the Clerk, National Assembly, Abuja.
- Punch
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