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ANGELS RESCUED ME! Melaye explains how he escaped SARS arrest

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The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, has said it was by the divine intervention of angels that he escaped arrest from operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery in FCT High Court, Abuja.

Recounting the event on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, Melaye expressed his displeasure that the All Progressives Congress-led federal government, which he worked for and helped to install, took him to court.

He said the SARS operatives laid siege for him for hours outside of the court, fortunately for him got information of the planned arrest but miraculously took him out of the court unnoticed and unhurt.

Mocking the failed SARS operation Melaye said they waited for hours in futility as he had gotten home and was resting on his bed.

“I was in that court for hours and they laid siege for hours. Every car coming in and out of the court was being checked. Somehow because I serve a living God, the angels of the Lord took me out of that court unnoticed and unhurt. They laid siege for more than five hours after I was resting on my bed.

Recall that the Federal Government on Thursday last week arraigned the senator for allegedly framing Edward Onoja, Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state, for an attempt on his life.

‎Melaye was granted bail by the court in the sum of N100,000 was, however, prevented from leaving the court premises by SARS operatives.

The statement read,

“On the 1st of March, I was arraigned by the party I worked for. I was arraigned by the government I helped to install. I appeared before the court and I was granted bail.

“Having been granted bail, I was quickly alerted that there were over a hundred policemen from SARS outside the court waiting to arrest me. When they took pictures of them to come and show me, even if you were going for the head of Shekau, you wouldn’t have prepared any better,” he said.

“I was in that court for hours and they laid siege for hours. Every car coming in and out of the court was being checked. Somehow because I serve a living God, the angels of the Lord took me out of that court unnoticed and unhurt. They laid siege for more than five hours after I was resting on my bed.

“We have a convention in this country, that when security agencies are interested in interrogating, investigating and inviting any Senator, they write the Senate President to provide such Senator.

“Why would they demean the integrity of the Senate of the Federal Republic? And lay siege for the Senator of the Federal Republic as if you want to arrest a common criminal?” Melaye queried.

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