The Nigeria Police Force has filed a charge against embattled
Senator Dino Melaye, for alleged illegal weapons possession. In the charge
filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the police said a pump-action gun
was recovered from Melaye’s Kogi house during a raid in his house in July last
year.
The charge sheet marked, FHC/ABJ/CR/07/2019 reads
“That you, Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West district in
the 8th National Assembly, on or about the 20th day of July 2018, at about
12.30 hours under the jurisdiction of this honourable court, unlawfully had in
your possession one automatic pump-action shotgun and 20 cartridges, which were
recovered at your residence located in the Ayetoro Gbede area of Kogi State,
when a search warrant was executed on the directives of the Nigeria Police
Force at your above mentioned residence under your control and thereby
committed an offence contrary to Section 27(1)(a)(i) of the Firearms Act Cap
F28 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”
Eight persons including six policemen and two men who were
painting Melaye’s house when the policemen came to search the property, have
been listed as witnesses against Melaye.
