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Kogi State High Court Grants Dino Melaye Bail
The lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye has been granted bail by the Kogi state High Court sitting in Lokoja with the sum of N10million.
Justice Nasiru Ajanah granted Senator Melaye bail in his ruling on his application on Wednesday, based on the lawmaker’s health challenge.
The judge presiding over the case described the medical report of the lawmaker as a merit factor to grant his bail application.
After been held in police custody for weeks, the judge, however, asked Senator Dino Melaye to provide a surety with a bond.
The presiding judge also ordered that the international passport of the surety be with the court.
Senator Dino Melaye is being charged by the police for allegedly arming deadly criminal gangs and convening a political rally that ended with the death of at least one person.
The police earlier reported they had arrested suspects who confirmed that Mr Melaye had provided arms and financial support to them.
The Senator has since denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to the charges filed against him.
Dino however, claimed that his ordeal was because of his outspoken position against the alleged impunity of the state governor.
Recall that the Senator was arrested in April after the police laid siege to his house in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
He landed in the hospital after he sustained injuries, as the lawmaker was said to have jumped from a moving police vehicle which was conveying him to Kogi State where he was to be tried in court.
More so, the senator was arraigned while on a stretcher by the police before the Magistrate Court in Lokoja over allegations of conspiracy and aiding of jailbreak on May 3.
Thursday last week was the last sitting and Justice Ajanah fixed May 16 for the hearing on Senator Melaye’s bail application. He thereafter adjourned the matter after listening to arguments from both the prosecuting counsel, Alex Iziyon, and the defence counsel, Mike Ozekhome.
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