6 Suspects Arrested Over Dino Melaye Assassination Attempt
On Saturday April 30, 2017, the spokesperson for the Nigerian Police in Abuja, CSP Jimoh Moshood told newsmen that six suspects in connection with an assassination attempt on the life Senator Dino Melaye in his home in Kogi State on April 15, 2017, have been arrested, including a Kogi local government sole administrator and one of his orderlies.
CSP Moshood said that the items recovered included one Hyundai Ambulance bus reportedly used in conveying the attackers to Dino’s location, five AK 47 rifles, One Beretta pistol and two locally made single barrel shotguns. Others were 25 Expended Shells of 7.62 mm ammunition, 13 expended shells of 9mm ammunition and 12 expended shells of gauge cartridge.
According to Moshood, the suspects used the Sole Administrator’s orderly telephone in planning the failed assassination on Melaye. He also mentioned that one of the suspects has confessed to the crime and admitted to having been sent by the sole administrator.
The firearms recovered have been sent for ballistic expert examination, test and analysis at the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department in Lagos. See another photo below:
