Twenty-hours after armed riot policemen besieged the Shanga, Maitama, Abuja residence of Senator Dino Melaye, the Nigeria Police Force said the lawmaker is now in its custody.
The Deputy Force spokesman, Aremu Adeniran, confirmed that Melaye was taken into custody because he refused to honour police summons extended to him in respect of a case of illegal possession of firearms.
Adeniran in a statement on Thursday said that the police obtained a warrant of arrest and trailed him to his house at Maitama, Abuja and cordoned off the place.
“He however surrendered himself to the police this morning for investigation on the allegations against him,” the statement said.
The police had alleged that Melaye contracted one Kabiru Seidu and his gang as political thugs, adding that the lawmaker met with the suspect on Airport road, Abuja inside his car in December, 2017 and gave him a bag containing an AK47 rifle, two Pump Action guns and N430,000 to share with his boys.
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