Dino Melaye Alleges Threat To Life. Petitions IG, UN, US and UK

The embattled lawmaker representing the Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, and several global bodies over what he described as a threat to his life.

Dino Melaye alleged that there was a plan to murder him “extrajudicially” by his “political enemies” in collusion with the men of the Kogi State Police Command.

The senator also petitioned the United Nations’ Resident Representative and the Ambassadors of the United States, Germany, Canada as well as the High Commissioner of the United Kingdom in Nigeria.

Others petitioned were the Amnesty International, Transparency International and the Human Rights Watch.

The petitions were signed on behalf of Melaye by his lawyer, Messrs Ricky Tarfa and Co.

Melaye, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, in the petition to the IG, urged the police boss to raise a neutral police team to investigate the allegations of gunrunning being levelled against him by the Kogi State Police Command allegedly in conspiracy with the Kogi State Government.

The lawmaker called for the intervention of the IG, members of the international community and global human rights bodies to save him from the “wilful, intentional harassment, oppression, political victimisation and threat to life.”