Alleged frame-up: FG arraigns Dino Melaye March 1

The Federal Government will on March 1 arraign the Kogi West
Senator Dino Melaye before the High Court of the Federal Capital
Territory in Abuja on two counts of giving false information about
an assassination attempt on his life to the police in April
2017.

Melaye was accused of falsely incriminating the Chief of Staff
to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, Mr. Edward Onoja David, in
the said assassination attempt.

The office of the Attorney General of the Federation filed the
charges, marked CR/106/18 on January 31, 2018.

TheNigerialawyer learnt on Sunday that the case had been
assigned to Justice Olasumbo Goodluck who sits in the Maitama
Division of the FCT High Court.

But our correspondent learnt that attempts to serve Melaye with
the charges at the National Assembly in Abuja failed last week.

“He will be served before the date of arraignment and if serving
him personally continues to prove difficult, there are other
options provided by the law,” a source in the Federal Ministry of
Justice said.

In the first count, the senator was accused of deliberately
giving false information to the police to frame Governor Bello’s
Chief of Staff as the mastermind of the assassination attempt on
him at his hometown in Ayetoro-Gbede in Kogi State in April last
year.

According to the charges signed by Mr. Magaji Labaran, the
police discovered the alleged falsehood in Melaye’s claim while
investigating the senator’s assassination claim.

In the second count, Melaye was accused of making false
statement of facts in a phone conversation with Mr. Mohammed
Abubakar, a son of the late former governor of Kogi State, Abubakar
Audu, with the intention of harming the reputation of David.

Melaye was said to have told Abubakar, a son of a former
governor of Kogi State in a telephone conversation how he framed
Edward Onoja David in the assassination attempt.

The Federal Government will on March 1 arraign the Kogi West
Senator Dino Melaye before the High Court of the Federal Capital
Territory in Abuja on two counts of giving false information about
an assassination attempt on his life to the police in April
2017.

Melaye was accused of falsely incriminating the Chief of Staff
to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, Mr. Edward Onoja David, in
the said assassination attempt.

The office of the Attorney General of the Federation filed the
charges, marked CR/106/18 on January 31, 2018.

TheNigerialawyer learnt on Sunday that the case had been
assigned to Justice Olasumbo Goodluck who sits in the Maitama
Division of the FCT High Court.

But our correspondent learnt that attempts to serve Melaye with
the charges at the National Assembly in Abuja failed last week.

“He will be served before the date of arraignment and if serving
him personally continues to prove difficult, there are other
options provided by the law,” a source in the Federal Ministry of
Justice said.

In the first count, the senator was accused of deliberately
giving false information to the police to frame Governor Bello’s
Chief of Staff as the mastermind of the assassination attempt on
him at his hometown in Ayetoro-Gbede in Kogi State in April last
year.

According to the charges signed by Mr. Magaji Labaran, the
police discovered the alleged falsehood in Melaye’s claim while
investigating the senator’s assassination claim.

In the second count, Melaye was accused of making false
statement of facts in a phone conversation with Mr. Mohammed
Abubakar, a son of the late former governor of Kogi State, Abubakar
Audu, with the intention of harming the reputation of David.

Melaye was said to have told Abubakar, a son of a former
governor of Kogi State in a telephone conversation how he framed
Edward Onoja David in the assassination attempt.