Come Out And Confess Your Crimes, Police Tell Melaye After He Alleged IGP Wants To Kill Him

Police Say Melaye Lied On Death Threats By IGP

The Nigerian Police Force has urged Senator Dino Melaye to confess if he is involved in any crime instead of whipping up public sentiments to cause distraction.

The police said this in reaction to claims by the Kogi senator that Police IG, Ibrahim Idris is planning to arrest and kill him.

As earlier reported by Naija News, Senator Melaye had taken to his Twitter account on the 25th of December, to raise an alarm that the IGP was plotting to arrest him and inject him with a deadly substance.

Melaye stated that the Police operative ordered to carry out the directive have been deployed by the police boss.

There is a plan by the IG to arrest me today and inject me to death. Men deployed already. CP kogi and others removed. Nigerians watch out.

— Senator Dino Melaye (@dino_melaye) December 25, 2018

However, in a reaction on Wednesday through its spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, the police say there is no such order from the Inspector General of Police or any plan by the Force to arrest Senator Dino Melaye and inject him to death, but if the Senator knows he had committed any crime or he is aware of his involvement in any crime, he should come out and confess and face the legal consequences instead of whipping up sentiments to distract the public.

The statement reads:

“The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to a statement in some sections of the media credited to a serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye, captioned “IG plans to arrest me, inject me to death”.

“The Force is categorically stating that the statement is mischievous, malicious, capable of misleading the public and laughable, there was no such order from the Inspector General of Police or any plan by the Force to arrest Senator Dino Melaye and inject him to death but if the Senator knows he had committed any crime or he is aware of his involvement in any crime, he should come out and confess and face the legal consequences instead of whipping up sentiments to distract the public.”

“The Force sees such defamatory, mischievous, malicious and reckless statement by Senator Dino Melaye as untrue, ridiculous, mischievous and unfortunate. Members of the public are hereby enjoined to disregard and discountenance the statement by Senator Dino Melaye in its entirety as untrue and mischievous.”

“Senator Dino Melaye is hereby called upon to know that his statement constitute a criminal defamatory offence, hate speech and hateful conduct. He should however as a law maker be law abiding and desist from un-senatorial and lawless utterances that cannot be substantiated with facts.”

“The Inspector General of Police will not be distracted by statements from the likes of Senator Dino Melaye but will continue to ensure that the rule of law prevails in all matters.”

source https://www.naijanews.com/2018/12/26/come-out-and-confess-your-crimes-police-tell-melaye-after-he-alleged-igp-wants-to-kill-him/