- Immigration arrests Dino melaye, says he is in Interpol watchlist
Lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on Monday morning on his way to Morrocco.
According to an AIT report, the lawmaker was arrested by men of Nigerian Immigration Service, who claimed that there was Interpol arrest order on him.
The station later reported that Melaye was already home, and that he was only prevented from travelling not arrested.
But the lawmaker who spoke a PUNCH correspondent has given more insights into his arrest and detention at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport when contacted by our correspondent on the telephone.
He said, “My self and the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and others were to be on an official trip to Morocco but while some have gone through the Lagos airport today, others are to depart tomorrow.
“I got to this airport I was checked in and was already in the lounge waiting for departure. Immigration officers invited me that there is a directive from the police that I can’t travel; that I am on their watch list. And I said it was not true, that the INTERPOL said they had not issue an alert on me. I opened INTERPOL’s website and showed them the denial. But they insisted that it was based on the directive from the police.
“I was disembarked and asked me to go to their office (at the airport). They snatched my passport but I snatched my thing back from them. I got it back! I’m still here with them. They circled me and said they were waiting for further instructions from the police.”
