Police re-arrest, move unconscious Melaye to national hospital

The Nigeria Police on Tuesday night re-arrested Senator Dino Melaye at Zanklin Hospital Abuja where he was receiving treatment from injuries he purportedly sustained after jumping out of a police vehicle to escape police custody earlier in the day.

The security operatives subsequently moved the senator, who represents Kogi West at the Senate, out of the hospital on a stretcher into an ambulance marked NPF 221 D, and drove him to the National Hospital in Abuja.

The security operatives, led by FCT Commissioner, Mr. Sadiq Bello, who moved Melaye out of Zanklin hospital at about 9:21pm, also arrested two medical doctors at the hospital who certified the unconscious senator unfit to be moved out of the private hospital.

Also arrested by the police was a younger brother of the Kogi Senator who was with him at the hospital.

Melaye was said to have jumped out of the police vehicle when men of the Nigerian Police instead of taking him to court as he was earlier told allegedly decided to take him to Lokoja, Kogi State.

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It was learnt that angry observers who were displeased with the treatment meted out to the senator by the security operatives, ensured he was taken to Zanklin hospital in an Ambulance.

Meanwhile, the police claimed that it was thugs hired by the senator that aided his escape from lawful custody.

 

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