The Nigeria Police Force said on Saturday it may declare the Senator representing Kogi West in the upper legislative chamber, Dino Melaye and Alhaji Mohammed Audu wanted if they refuse to comply with the courtโs order.
Melaye and Audu are expected to appear before the Federal High Court, Lokoja, on March 28 to answer criminal charges against them.
The police also said the duo refusal to appear in court would force it obtain warrant of arrest for their arrest or declare them wanted throughout the country and on INTERPOL platform.
The Force Spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, disclosed these in a statement in Abuja.
A political thug, Kabiru Saidu a.k.a Osama, had confessed to the police investigative team that Melaye handed over a bag containing one AK47 rifle, two Pump Action guns and the sum of N430,000.00 for him to share with his boys.
The confession led the police to invite Melaye for questioning but the police said the senator and Audu have refused to honour its invitation despite several attempts to make them to before the force investigating team.
Giving update of the investigation, Moshood said the indictment of both politicians has led the Force to invite them for questioning.
He said: โWorking on actionable intelligence, the Kogi State Police Command personnel and operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad trailed and arrested two suspects โ Kabiru Saidu a.k.a Osama, 31, From Dekina local government area of Kogi State but based in Anyagba (Leader of the gang) and Nuhu Salisu a.k.a Small, 25, (a member of the gang), after a gun battle with the police team that lasted for some hours on the 19th January, 2018 at Ogojueje in Dekina LGA.
โDuring investigation, they confessed to the various criminal roles they played in the commission of several kidnappings and armed robbery, murder and other violent crimes in different parts of Kogi State for which they have been on the wanted list of the police for more than two years now.
โThe gang leader Kabiru Saidu revealed that he and his gang had been working as a political thug for one Alhaji Mohammed Audu, a politician in the state and that Alhaji Mohammed Audu invited him to Abuja and introduced him to Senator Dino Melaye and they met on Airport Road, Abuja, inside the Senator Dino Melayeโs Car in December 2017.
โSaidu further confessed to the police investigative team that Senator Dino Melaye handed over a bag containing one AK47 rifle, two Pump Action guns and the sum of N430,000.00 to share with his boys.
โThe police conducted investigation into the criminal indictments against Melaye and Mohammed Audu and discovered that two of them have case to answer.โ
