Watch Video of Dino Melaye Telling SARS Officials That He Will Kill Himself and Land Them In Trouble [Video]
A video which shows embattled Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye threatening to kill himself and put the police that arrested him in trouble has emerged.
Recall that trouble started on Monday when Melaye was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on his way to Morrocco for an official engagement.
Before his arrest, the police had declared him wanted. The lawmaker was declared wanted alongside Mohammed Audu, son of a former governor of Kogi state, Abubakar Audu.
According to the Police, the duo have also been placed on Interpol watch list for allegedly providing false information to the police in relation to an allegation of attempted murder on Melaye’s life sometime last year.
Dino was arrested and later released. Then rearrested again and transferred to SARS.
He had managed to escape from the security personnel after he was arrested at the airport. But later on Monday, policemen stormed his residence at Shanga Street, Maitama, Abuja where they kept a vigil in a bid to arrest him.
On Tuesday morning, Dino surrendered to the operatives after some of his senator friends received assurances from the police authorities that he would not be taken to Lokoja where he alleged he might be assassinated.
The policemen drove Dino away in a white Hiace bus followed by three other vehicles to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad facility at Guzape, Abuja.
Press play to watch Dino Melaye, sitting on the ground, threaten the police:
Senator Dino Melaye later landed in hospital, first he was admitted to the Zanklin Hospital, Mabushi, Abuja, then later, National Hospital after he allegedly jumped off the moving police van at Area One Roundabout, Garki, in an attempt to prevent the police from taking him to Lokoja, Kogi State.
The police were said to be taking him to Kogi State where they allegedly planned to parade him before the media along with six suspects for alleged gun running and criminal conspiracy.
Dino was said to have engaged the policemen in a scuffle during which he sustained injury leading to his admission in the hospital.
It was gathered that Melaye, on suspecting that the police were taking him to Kogi State, engaged the officers in the bus in a scuffle and managed to jump out of the van after it was blocked by unidentified vehicles around 2.10pm.
The force spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, said in a statement that the lawmaker was aided by miscreants to escape, adding that he was later trailed to the Zanklin Hospital.
“At about 1200hrs of today (Tuesday), Senator Dino Melaye, while in lawful custody of the Nigeria Police Force personnel and being taken for arraignment in Federal High Court, Lokoja from Abuja, escaped from lawful custody when hoodlums and miscreants in two Toyota Hilux vehicles blocked the police vehicle conveying Senator Dino Melaye around Area 1 Roundabout, Abuja and in the process the senator jumped out of the police vehicle through the window and was rescued from the policemen by hoodlums and miscreants to an unknown destination.
“The police team reinforced and trailed Senator Dino Melaye to Zankli Hospital, Abuja where he was re-arrested.
“The Senator would be arraigned in court without further delay.”
