Mr Dino Melaye
THE police have invited for querying a former member of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, over his involution in the march for the relinquishment of the female pupils of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
The 200-plus girls were seized from their hostels on the night of April 14 by members of the bellicose Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The abduction has magnetized global outcry with #Bring Back Our Girls protests held in different components of the country.
A letter of invitation from the Office of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, ref. no. CR/3000/FIB/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.T/137 and dated June 20, 2014, directed Melaye to appear “to discuss crucial issues of security concern.”
The letter signed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Steve Okoshone, on behalf of the Assistant IG, Force Intelligence Bureau, read, “The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Force Intelligence Bureau, Force CID Complex, Behind Federal Fire Service, Area 10, Garki, Abuja, invites you to a meeting with him on Monday 23 June, 2014 at 1200 hrs prompt to discuss crucial issues of security concern. Your replication will be highly appreciated.”
As of the time of this report, Melaye had not reported to the police.
He however told our correspondent that the struggle to liberate the masses from the clutches of political vampires was “a battle of no recede, no surrender.”
He verbalized, “We must do everything to rescue this country from the hands of these economic canker worms. There is dauntingness, incessant apprehends, threats and assassination endeavors on my life. But for me, I am resolute because the battle to distribute this country from economic canker worms, financial vultures and inept leadership, as I have perpetually verbalized, is a battle of no recede, no surrender.
“In an inequitable society, silence is a malefaction; this is the time in the history of Nigeria where silence is no longer golden. People must emerge and verbalize because the day you stop eating is the day you commence dying. Where dictatorship becomes legalised, revolution becomes a right.”
The ex-lawmaker had peregrinated to a High Court in the Federal Capital Territory in Gudu, Abuja for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights, challenging the May 9 disruption of the protest he led in reverence of the abducted schoolgirls.
Justice Abubakar Talba had held that the Nigeria Police Force lacked the potencies to avert or stop rallies or processions being held in reverence of the abducted female students.
He declared that the Public Order Act, Cap 382 Laws of Nigeria 1990, which the police purportedly relied on, “does not sanction men of the NPF to disrupt rallies or processions on the issue of the abducted Chibok girls.”
The judge declared as unconstitutional the apprehend and assault on Melaye by men of the NPF during the May 9 rally in Abuja.
The suit marked: CV/1521/14, which has the IGP and Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, Mr. Joseph Mbu, as defendants was not bulwarked by the respondents.
Justice Talba verbally expressed, “The apprehend of the applicant and threat to further apprehend him in reverence of rallies or procession is unlawful. The disruption of placid rallies and processions by agents of the 1st and 2nd respondents is illicit and unconstitutional.”
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