Bid to bail Melaye fails

Efforts to have Senator Dino Melaye freed from police custody on Monday failed as the Chief Justice of Kogi State High Court, Justice Nasiru Ajanah, adjourned hearing on his bail application.

The Judge, who adjourned the hearing till Thursday, May 10, explained that the development was due to the failure of the lawyers of the Police and Senator Melaye to file their affidavit on the bail application.

The Chief Magistrate of a Magistrate Court in Kogi State, Suleiman Abdulahi, had last week denied the bail application for the senator and ruled that Melaye would remain in custody for the next 39 days, alongside the two accused persons who implicated him.

However, Justice Ajanah on Friday, gave an interim order that Melaye be returned to the National Hospital Abuja, for further treatment. He gave the order after the senator’s legal counsel, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) earlier sought for his bail.

Police had on April 24 arrested Melaye after he submitted himself to them following security siege on his house in Abuja.

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The senator was said to have sustained injuries after he allegedly jumped from a moving police vehicle conveying him to Kogi State to be arraigned before the court.

The embattled senator who had remained on admission at the National Hospital, Abuja is being prosecuted over alleged unlawful possession of arms alongside two others in Kogi State.

 

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