Senator Dino Melaye is in good health and is fit to stand trial, police have said.
Assistant Inspector General of Police (Medical), Kaomi Ahmadu, disclosed this to reporters at the Police Hospital, Garki in Abuja on Monday.
“All this long, we have been managing him and thank God he is in good health now.
“At any moment, if there is any course for us to invite a specialist or take him to a specialist centre, we oblige him. He also has a respiratory rate of 20 per minute; so, by and large, he is in sound health,” Mr Ahmadu said.
He certified that Mr Melaye was medically fit to stand trial in the case of alleged attempted culpable homicide preferred against him by the force.
Although Melaye claimed he needed further and better care, the AIG said the police would continue to provide good and quality medical assistance for the lawmaker.
The AIG stressed that the lawmaker was in a critical state when brought into the facility, but they were able to stabilise his condition.
“You will remember when he (Melaye) was rushed here, he had an acute asthmatic attack. He was brought in from the SARS facility and we managed his acute asthmatic attack.
“He came out of asthma and since then, we had an incidental finding of malaria and typhoid fever. Along the way, he raised complaints of some symptoms suggestive of some nerve fractures.
“We took him to a specialist centre where he was reviewed by three specialists that are concerned on the brain, spinal cord, and nerve routes,” he said.
The AIG briefed reporters in
