Melaye: Police allegations laughable, preposterous
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a case of criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms have therefore been filed by the nigeria police force at federal high court lokoja on 16th march 2018 against the two suspects mentioned above senator dino melaye and alh. mohammed audu who is also a suspect in the matter and is now on the run2 according to the police the men not only confessed to have been involved in several kidnappings in the state and environs they also claimed to be hired thugs for politicians2 according to the gang leader osama he has been working as a political thug for one alhaji mohammed audu a politician in the state2 he said alhaji mohammed audu invited him to abuja and introduced him to senator dino melaye and they met on airport road abuja inside the senator dino melayes car in the month of december 20172 the suspect further confessed that sen. dino melaye told him that they should start working for the senator as his political thugs and they should recruit and train more othersic thugs to work for him in preparation toward 2019 general election to enable him sen. dino melaye challenge his political opponents and disorganised kogi state2 no amount of lies and blackmail will detract my attention from speaking the truth and defending it he said1 melaye also claimed that the withdrawal of police from vips announced by the inspector general of police ibrahim idris was targeted at him1 i am the target. ig wants to expose me so i can be killed. having survived assassination attempt twice i deserve police protection in a country where im a tax payer he wrote1 the police in lokoja today said they have charged the senator with illegal possession of firearms in a case filed in a lokoja court on 16 march1 senator dino melaye has described as preposterous and laughable the allegations by the police that he hired two political thugs and armed them to cause mayhem in kogi state1 charged along with the senator were another politician muhammed audu said to be on the run and two other deadly persons linked with a spate of kidnapping and robbery.also read one of the two suspects was identified as a 31 year-old kabiru saidu a.k.a osama. t the other was nuhu salisu who is 25 years-old.1 the duo were arrested in january. police claimed they had confessed that they were also working as thugs for senator melaye1 fabricated lies by kogi state govt and the police will fail. its utterly laughable and preposterous. its a sign of desperation the embattled senator tweeted today1 the police said osama further confessed that melaye handed over a bag containing one ak47 rifle two pump action guns and the n430000.00 to share with his boys1 consequent on the indictments and criminal confessions against senator dino melaye by the principal suspect kabiru saidu a.k.a osama 31 yrs nigeria police force wrote a letter dated 2nd of march 2018 addressed to the senate president federal republic of nigeria informing and requesting him to release senator dino melaye to report to commissioner of police kogi state command on the 7th march 2018 to answer to criminal offences levelled against him to enable the police carry out a discreet investi1 at a press conference in lokoja today the police spokesman jimoh moshood said the police seized from the thugs and their gang members two ak47 rifles five pump action guns two locally made pistols and heaps of charms1