Dino Melaye Arrested After Oduah-must-go Protest

Date: 23-10-2013 11:17 pm (10 years ago) | Author: jkkl
- at 23-10-2013 11:17 PM (10 years ago)
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The police in Abuja on Wednesday arrested the Executive Director, Anti-
Corruption Network, Dino Melaye, after the former House of Representatives
member led pro-democracy activists on a protest, calling for the removal of the
Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, over the armoured car scandal.
The minister has recently come under fire for allegedly ordering the Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority to buy her two bullet-proof BMW cars, worth $1.6m (about
N255m).
The protest, which held at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, around 11am, was not
without drama as some groups also staged a counter-protest, to drum up
support for the embattled minister.
While the police averted an impending clash between the two groups, the security
operatives, led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police in the FCT, Sunday
Olukoya, allowed the pro-Oduah protesters to leave, but stopped the bus
conveying Melaye supporters, declaring that they are under arrest.
Melaye, however, protested, asking the police the rationale behind the arrest of
the protesters and offering to be arrested in their place.
The former lawmaker said, “When the police pension fund was stolen, we
protested on behalf of the police; we were not arrested. When we protested
against the theft of fuel subsidy fund, we were not arrested.
“Now that we are protesting the theft of the nation’s money by the action of the
minister, who used Nigeria’s money to buy armoured cars in the midst of lack, we
are under arrest. The money was not budgeted for, not appropriated.
“The protest affects everybody; the police are also affected because they are
taxpayers. I’m also a taxpayer.”
Melaye and others were later arrested by the police and whisked away in a
Toyota Hilux van, marked NPS 21280 at about 1pm.

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Posted: at 23-10-2013 11:17 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
- Hector2 at 24-10-2013 07:45 AM (10 years ago)
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It is a big lie, there were no hoodlums not to talk of being armed becos I was there. I can see there more to this protest than meet the eyes. Dino is a hatchet man we must know d role of APC here
Posted: at 24-10-2013 07:45 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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