The Nigeria Police Force has asked Senator Dino Melaye to surrender himself for arrest and investigation for attempted culpable homicide.
Mr Melaye is representing Kogi West in the National Assembly.
It stated that the police operatives deployed in his house with an arrest warrant will not leave his Abuja residence until they apprehended him.
Force spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, said in a statement on Monday that Melaye had repeatedly spurned several invitations asking him to report for an investigation into the alleged shooting of one Sergeant Danjuma Saliu, attached to 37 Police Mobile Force while on stop-and-search duty along Aiyetoro Gbede, Mopa Road in Kogi State.
Mr Moshood explained that Melaye and his armed thugs shot and injured Saliu who is currently on admission at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.
Police investigators, he said, had invited Melaye through a letter of invitation dated 23rd July, 2018, signed by the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, and addressed to the Clerk of the National Assembly.
“Melaye was asked to report on 26th July, 2018 at the Kogi State Police Command, CIID, Lokoja to answer to a case of criminal conspiracy and attempted culpable homicide against him under investigation in the Kogi State Police Command.
“The claim by the Senate President in the media that the Police did not submit a letter of invitation to the Clerk of the National Assembly is therefore incorrect as can be seen on the attached letter with acknowledgment stamp of the Clerk, National Assembly, Abuja, dated 24 July, 2018,” the spokesperson said.
The Police also tendered copies of pictures of the injured officer, the invitation letter to Melaye addressed to the Clerk of National Assembly and the medical report from the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, confirming the admission of Sgt. Saliu to the hospital for gunshot injury.
