WE ARRAIGNED SENATOR MELAYE OVER ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, SAYS POLICE

The police said, it will be recalled that, on the 24th April, 2018, at about 12pm, Melaye while in lawful custody of the authorities and being taken for arraignment for conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms in Court in Lokoja, from Abuja, escaped from lawful custody.

The press statement added that, hoodlums and miscreants in two Toyota Hilux Vehicles blocked the police vehicle conveying Melaye around Area 1 Round About, Abuja and in the process he (Melaye) broke the side glass of the vehicle and jumped out of the police bus through the window.

The police said the Senator was rescued from the police men by hoodlums and miscreants to an unknown destination before he was rearrested at Zankli Hospital in Abuja later in the day on same date, adding that, ’this case was investigated and that is why the Senator was arraigned in court today’.

The police, however, confirmed that Melaye was rearrested by the police Investigation team after his Wednesday arraignment at Chief Magistrate Court, Wuse for the pending offences of criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms already filed in a Court of competent jurisdiction in Lokoja for which he will be arraigned without further delay.