A Kogi State local government sole administrator and five other suspects has been arrested by the Police force in Kogi in connection with an assassination attempt on Sen. Dino Melaye in his country home in Kogi.
The suspects had penultimate attacked the APC senator’s house to kill him but the operation failed has the their target was out of the house
The police spokesman, CSP Jimoh Moshood, who paraded the suspects, told newsmen in Abuja that the arrested suspects included a Kogi local government sole administrator and five has been arrested and one Hyundai Ambulance bus allegedly used in conveying the attackers, five AK 47 rifles, One Beretta pistol and two locally made single barrel shot guns was recovered from them.
Other items according to Moshood include 25 expended shells of 7.62 mm ammunition, 13 expended shells of 9mm ammunition and 12 expended shells of gauge cartridge.
Moshood said that the firearms had been sent for ballistic expert examination test and analysis at the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department in Lagos.
Addressing newsmen yesterday in abuja said following the attack on Melaye, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris swiftly deployed Police Special Tactical Squad (STS) team to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Information gathered revealed one of the suspects who confessed to the crime admitted to have been sent by the sole administrator.
the suspects used the telephone of the Sole Administrator’s orderly in planning the failed assassination on Melaye was arrested with a serious criminal link to other active members of the gang.
the Force spokesman said efforts were being intensified to arrest other suspects at large, adding that the suspects would be arraigned in court on completion of investigation.
