Police deny plans to arrest, kill Dino Melaye

…describe allegation as hate speech

The Police at Force headquarters on Wednesday reacted to the
allegation of Senator Dino Melaye that the Inspector General of
Police Ibrahim Idris has given orders for his arrest while he
should be injected to death.

While denying any such plan to arrest Senator Melaye or kill
him, the Police described Dino’s allegation as hate speech aimed at
putting the force into disrepute before members of the public.

A statement by Force Public Relations Officer, Acting DCP Jimoh
Moshood said, “There is no such order from the Inspector General of
Police or any plan by the Force to arrest Senator Dino Melaye and
inject him to death, but if the Senator knows he had committed any
crime or he is aware of his involvement in any crime, he should
come out and confess and face the legal consequences instead of
whipping up sentiments to distract the public.

The statement reads, “The attention of the Nigeria Police Force
has been drawn to a statement in some sections of the media
credited to a serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National
Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye, captioned “IG plans to arrest me,
inject me to death”.

‘The Force is categorically stating that the statement is
mischievous, malicious, capable of misleading the public and
laughable, there was no such order from the Inspector General of
Police or any plan by the Force to arrest Senator Dino Melaye and
inject him to death but if the Senator knows he had committed any
crime or he is aware of his involvement in any crime, he should
come out and confess and face the legal consequences instead of
whipping up sentiments to distract the public.

“The Force sees such defamatory, mischievous, malicious and
reckless statement by Senator Dino Melaye as untrue, ridiculous,
mischievous and unfortunate. Members of the public are hereby
enjoined to disregard and discountenance the statement by Senator
Dino Melaye in its entirety as untrue and mischievous.

“Senator Dino Melaye is hereby called upon to know that his
statement constitute a criminal defamatory offence, hate speech and
hateful conduct.

” He should however as a law-maker be law-abiding and desist
from un-senatorial and lawless utterances that cannot be
substantiated with facts.

“The Inspector General of Police will not be distracted by
statements from the likes of Senator Dino Melaye but will continue
to ensure that the rule of law prevails in all matters.”

Related