Dino Melaye Gave Us Guns, N430,000 to Become His Thugs- Suspect Alleges

Embattled Kogi Senator, Dino Melaye has found himself in another serious issue after he was charged to court by the police with criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms.

This is due to a confession by some political thugs that the Senator recruited them with the 2019 elections in mind and even gave them the tools to perpetrate evil.

According to the Nation, Police Spokesman, Jimoh Moshood said that so far the Senator has refused to cooperate with Police and has snubbed their invitation.

The suspects were: Kabiru Saidu, a.k.a Osama (31), Nuhu Salisu (25 ) aka small, and Alhaji Muhammed Audu, a politician, who is now at large.

Osama and Small, were arrested on January 19 after a shootout and they claimed that it was on the orders of Senator Melaye.

According to the Police Spokesman, the thugs confessed to many crimes asides from being political thugs, including robbery and Kidnapping.

“According to the gang leader, Osama, he had been working as a political thug for Alhaji Mohammed Audu .

“ He said Alhaji Mohammed Audu invited him to Abuja and introduced him to Senator Dino Melaye and they met on Airport road, Abuja inside Senator Melaye’s car in the month of December, 2017.

“The suspect further confessed that Sen. Dino Melaye told him that they should start working for him as his political thugs and they should recruit and train other thugs to work for him in preparation for the 2019 general elections to enable him ( Sen. Dino Melaye ) challenge his political opponents and disorganise Kogi State.” said the Police Spokesperson.

Dino Melaye has responded to the allegations saying; “This is an attempt to shut me up and stop me from speaking the truth, but they have failed. It is an orchestrated lie by the governor and the police. I have tweeted about six weeks ago that they want to set me up because I got information from the Government House when they met to set me up

“You can see the conflicting statements by the criminals. I heard one said I gave two AK47 and pump action, while the other said I gave only one rifle and that I gave N430,000 to train militia and that I met them on Airport Road, in December 2017, but they didn’t give a date and time.”