BREAKING NEWS - Senator Dino Surrenders To Police After 8 Days

The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye, has finally surrendered to the Police after eight (8) days siege to his Abuja residence.

Senator Dino & IGP Idris

An Abuja high court had on Thursday refused an ex-parte application brought by the Senator to order the removal of police blockage on his residence.

At least 30 policemen had invaded his residence on December 28, 2018 vowing not to leave without arresting him. He was accused of culpable homicide, an allegation he denied.

Journalist understand that Melaye is currently in police custody in company of some lawmakers and his lawyers. Melaye came out of hiding one day after Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, advised him to surrender.

Dino Residence

He had failed in his bid to secure a court order to make the police vacate his residence.

Accusing the Kogi State government of being behind his ordeal, Melaye had vowed not to succumb to intimidation.

"There is a deliberate attempt by the Kogi state government to kill me, to destroy me. I have written the inspector-general of police (IGP). My international passport is with the Nigerian police, I have a court order that it should be released to me but the IGP has refused to honor the court order," he reveal this to newsmen on the day of the police invasion.

"If the police that is supposed to maintain law and order cannot obey court order, how do they expect citizens to obey court orders? As I speak to you, my security detail has been withdrawn since April 2018 and it is all in a deliberate attempt to expose me, so that I will be killed and destroyed.

Police Cars Around Dino Residence

"The same SARS from Kogi that shot at me are the same SARS in the photograph occupying my compound and 80 percent in mufti. I thought that recently there was an instruction that SARS should wear uniform. I am in seven different courts and anyone that they will do will be number eight. I am not afraid to be arraigned because my hands are clean and I know the God I serve will deliver me."

Reporters gathered that friends of the embattled Senator and lawmakers who came to his house to show solitary are heading to the police headquarters as at the time of filling this report.