Police Re-Arrest Dino Melaye After Court Granted Him N90m Bail

Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has been re-arrested by men of the Nigeria Police just moments after an Abuja Magistrate’s Court granted him N90 million bail.

The police had arraigned Senator Melaye before the Magistrate’s court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, where the presiding Magistrate, Mrs Mabel Segun-Bello granted him the bail on Wednesday.

The charges preferred against the federal lawmaker by the police partly reads that “On the 24th of April 2018, about 1330hrs at Area One roundabout Abuja, within the jurisdiction of the court, you Senator Dino Melaye of the Federal Republic of Nigeria while being conveyed in a Police White Hilux Bus with Registration number NPF 3354 D to Lokoja, Kogi State, to be arraigned in court for conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms in charge Number CMCL/14SC/2018 filed at the Chief Magistrate Court Lokoja, you Senator Dino Melaye intentionally broke the side windscreen of the bus and jumped out of the bus after it was blocked by a Hilux Vehicle with registration number Kaduna MKA 603 GY occupied by your younger brother Samuel Melaye and one Barrister Amefula David Emeka and driven by yet to be unidentified person who escaped from the scene after the blockade.

“You Senator Dino Melaye after breaking the side windscreen attempted to kill yourself by jumping out of the bus and fell on the ground and thereafter started shouting that you want to kill yourself and implicate the Police for your death.

“That Police Officers who were escorting you in the bus tried to re-arrest you back to the bus, but you resisted further arrest with the help of your brother Samuel Melaye and some lawyers in your company and further threatened to injure the Police officers if they try to further arrest you and you finally escaped from the scene in another Hilux vehicle.”

Senator Melaye, however, pleaded not guilty after which he was granted bail by Magistrate Segun-Bello.

But despite the Court’s ruling, the police re-arrested the All Progressives Congress lawmaker on the premises of the Court.