Dino Melaye Refuses To Enter DSS Hospital, Sleeps On Bare Floor In The Premises

The controversial senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, was seen sleeping on the bare floor as he refused to enter the main building of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) medical facility.

This is coming after the embattled senator who suffered an asthmatic attack and slumped after surrendering to the Nigerian Police was forcefully moved from the Police Hospital in Abuja to the DSS medical facility still within Abuja.

It was gathered that Senator Melaye refused to be admitted at the DSS medical facility and choose to stay put on the bare floor in the compound of the hospital because he claimed he has no case with the DSS.

Melaye’s family members who lamented the treatment given to the lawmaker said they have not been told why he was taken to the medical facility of the DSS because he does not have a case with the security agency.

Meanwhile, Moshood Jimoh, the spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force has explained that Senator Melaye was moved from the police clinic to the medical facility of the Department of State Service as part of preliminary arrangements for his coming trial in Lokoja, Kogi state. Jimoh said:

“On the 9th of January, 2019 we got a High Court Remand Warrant to keep him in police custody for fourteen days.

“The police medical team at our facility examined him and concluded that he was okay to stand trial but he is insisting that he is not okay; that is why we are taking him to another government hospital.

“He has been taken to the DSS hospital and he will be returned to us after their medical examination because he does not have any case with SSS.

“He only a case with the police and we are going to take him to court within the period covered by the Remand Warrant.

“He will be taken to court within the period because the Remand Warrant is from an FCT High court, which gives us the permission to keep him in police custody for 14 days.

“He was only taken to their (SSS) hospital; he is not in their custody.

“Our people have examined him and we want another government hospital to also examine him and give a medical opinion.”