Angels of the Lord rescued me from SARS

Senator

Senator Melaye was arraigned for allegedly providing false information and misleading the Police on the attack on him in Kogi with the intention of framing the chief of staff to the state government, Edward Onoja.

The lawmaker who was sorting out his bail conditions when some operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) stormed the court premises.

“I was quickly alerted that they were over one hundred Policemen from SARS that they were outside the court waiting to arrest me,” Melaye said at plenary in Wednesday, March 7, 2018.

“I was wondering that it was untrue but it was confirmed that fierce-looking men carrying arms and ammunitions with SARS written on their caps and vests. Some of them masked. Even if you were going for the head of Shekau, you wouldn’t have prepared any better.

“I was in that court for hours and they laid siege for hours. Every car coming in and out of the court were being checked.

“Somehow because I serve a living God, the angels of the Lord took me out of that court unnoticed and unhurt. They laid siege for more than five hours after I was resting on my bed,” he announced.

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State of Emergency in Kogi

Melaye who wondered why the Senate President was not notified before the purported arrest urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Kogi state.

“We have a convention in this country, that when security agencies are interested in interrogating, investigating and inviting any senator, they write the senate President to provide such senator.

“Why would they demean the integrity of the senate of the federal republic. And lay siege for the senator of the federal republic as if you want to arrest a common criminal.

“We can call on the president of the federal republic of Nigeria to declare a state of emergency in Kogi to serve as deterrence to other governors who thinks power starts and ends with them,” he declared.

Dino for President

Senator Melaye's presidential campaign posters recently flooded social media.

“Vote Sen. Dino Melaye for president 2019, Let us take our tomorrow today. Enough of old age and cluelessness vote right, vote Dino...” read inscriptions on the poster.

The lwamaker has, however, denied knowledge of the posters.