Samuel Melaye, brother to Dino
Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, has kicked against the police siege at
the lawmaker’s residence.
The police have been at the Abuja
residence of Melaye since last week, seeking to arrest him over alleged
culpable homicide.
Speaking during a Channels TV
programme on Wednesday, Samuel said the senator’s whereabouts have remained
unknown following the siege.
He said the government and the
police have made the life of Melaye “a living hell” for the past few months.
Asked by the anchor about the
senator’s whereabouts, he responded: “I cannot confirm categorically because
they have not allowed anybody into that house. They shut the house, they are
the ones opening the gate.
“My parents are supposed to be in
that house as we speak. Dino is not the only occupant of that house, there are
staff.”
According to him, “the case they
are raising against us happened in July; I was there in the car, the policemen
shot at us. I have six bullets riddled on that car. So how can they turn around
all of a sudden and say we are the ones shooting at the police?”
He said the senator’s orderlies
have been taken away since “over seven months ago.”
“And because of the injustice on
a daily basis, we cannot believe anything they say or do. I believe they are
out to harm my brother,” he added.
“They went into the compound,
arrested the security man, beat him up; the cleaner and bodyguard the same
thing.”
WHY IS THE POLICE AFTER MELAYE?
The police said the senator’s
“armed thugs” attacked police personnel, “shot and wounded Sgt. Danjuma Saliu,
attached to 37 police mobile force (PMF) on stop and search duty along Aiyetoro
Gbede, Mopa road in Kogi state.”
Jimoh Moshood, police spokesman,
had also said the officers at his residence have a warrant for his arrest and
that a letter was written to the national assembly inviting over the matter
which he “refused” to honour.
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