CONSTITUTIONAL IMMUNITY IS NOT FOR SENATOR DINO MELAYE & CO!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(LOOKING AT NIGERIA'S POLITICAL SYSTEM FROM A GODLY PERSPECTIVE)

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 8. NO 282. 6th January, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

CONSTITUTIONAL IMMUNITY IS NOT FOR SENATOR DINO MELAYE & CO!

Legal Drafters and Crafters of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, envisaged that the IMMUNITY CLAUSE could be abused at any point in time if it were an all-comers entitlement and so, professionally restricted the revered privilege upstream, to Mr. President and his Vice and also the Governor and his Deputy in Section 308!

Legislators and other political office holders were deliberately cut off in order to avoid the kind of shameful/disgraceful scenarios that have been continuously displayed by unruly lawmakers of the 8th National Assembly, from inception on 9th August, 2015, till date within their green and red cubicles, where their utterances were immunized from prosecution! And because some of them had no reputable pedigree, they had displayed recklessness in speech/utterances against well-established institutions of government and respectable individuals and not sparing the exalted personality of the President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria! And that is why no legislator was charged to any court of law in spite of the lawlessness exhibited to the whole world during the joint session of National Assembly, which the President addressed at the 2019 Budget presentation!

The Nigerian Senate tried in futility to sponsor a bill to grant legislators with the same immunity being enjoyed by topmost officers of the Executive without success! The deputy senate president, Ike Ekeremadu, who spearheaded the move pegged his reasons on the diversionary tendencies of court litigations against law-makers in the legitimate discharges of law-making and oversight duties!

HOW NOT TO BE A NIGERIAN LAW-MAKER!
Dino Daniel Melaye, is our case study of "How Not To Be a Nigerian Senator! Not much of a political career of Dino manifested until he surfaced at the House of Representatives in 2011, as the choice of KOGI WEST Constituency and exhibited some traits of a confused "rights activist", during a rowdy/combative session in which his cloth was reduced to shreds and in addition was suspended for his role as a ring leader of those whom condemned the government of ex-president Ebele Jonathan as the most corrupt in Nigeria!
Though found guilty by the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges, Dino (now 45 years old), played the victim to solicit for sympathy votes which took him to the red chambers ahead of Senator Smart Adeyemi who was a preferred choice to the charign of political watchers! During his period at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, from year 2000, he was said to have been seriously involved in students unionism activities which delayed his academic pursuit longer than usual.  Having acquired the Kogi West Senatorial District seat on a platter of gold, Dino as one of the arrow heads of the NASS Coup of 9th December, 2015, idolized 'Bukola Saraki, whose nomination he seconded   as candidate for the office of Senate President, and which was acquired by hook and crook on 9th June, 2015!
He led a team of 80 Senators in solidarity to attend Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), when his principal was charge for assets declaration/falsification! Before then, he also led some "distinguished senators" to keep vigil with Saraki's wife during her interrogation at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in 2015!

Dino Melaye stands out as the most controversial senator since the fresh attempt to establish a new democratic dispensation:
Though he rode to victory on the platform of the APC, having dumped his former party, PDP, which he alleged treated him very badly at the lower chambers, he did not waste time  to become a leader of the Opposition within the ruling Party!
From the onset Dino serially condemned virtually all Executive activities, especially Bills and Presidential nominees for confirmation with the succinct support of his master, 'Bukola Saraki, who always gave him ample opportunities to desecrate the hallowed chambers with his despicable character, uncouth and foul languages not befitting such gathering of eminent personalities!
He recklessly uttered libelous vituperations in the chambers without being called to order by Saraki! During a debate he disrespected Senator (Mrs.) 'Remi Tinubu, whom he boasted he would beat up and impregnate on the floor of the house and got away with that statement because of "chambers immunity"!
He accused Adams Oshiomole during his tenure as Governor of Edo State, for importing his wife instead of marrying a Nigerian woman!
He was alleged to be operating a foreign bank account contrary to constitutional provisions and which he constantly denied, but it is believed that the EFCC is already investigating the allegations!
He is involved in certificate scandals as both Harvard University and London School of Economics and Political Science; but both institutions have denied his claims to have studied on their campuses!
Dino Melaye has also been on collision course with his State Governor, Yahaya Bello, whom he accused of spending over N1 billion naira over unproductive ventures instead of paying salaries and pensions to workers and described the attitude as "a wicked act"!
This controversial senator jumped out of a moving Police vehicle which was conveying to Kogi State to answer to some criminal charges, injured himself and eventually ended up in the hospital!
A RECALL process was made against Dino Melaye in June 2017, but the attempt was foiled by both Saraki and his deputy, who boasted that the move would fail and ensured that it did not wail through!
Melaye jumped ship with 13 other APC Senators back to PDP, with the aim of destabilizing the polity and give the opposition a majority edge over the ruling Party and create more grandstanding in the Parliament! Senator Saraki later joined the bandwagon of the traitors and shamelessly held on to the position of Senate President, even as the minority party in the equation!
The ubiquitous senator always shouted at the top of his voice that he was "a transparently honest Nigerian" and to prove that point, he published in May 2016, an anti-corruption book titled, "ANTIDOTES FOR CORRUPTION: THE NIGERIAN STORY" (instead of using the preposition "to"), to read Antidotes To Corruption, which was launched by SARAKI and purchased for 469 legislators for N23, 450,000 @ N50.000 per hard cover! Dame Patience Jonathan, former first lady also graced the occasion which received back lashes from the social media!

IS SENATOR DINO MELAYE ABOVE THE LAW?
He alleged that the Police IG wanted to arrest him and inject him to death and that his life was not safe in the custody of the organization whereas, Dino and his group were accused of shooting at a police officer Sgt.Danjuma Saliu, attached to Kogi Police Command, while on duty on Aiyetoro Gbede, Mopa Road, Kogi, in July 2018, during a stop and search exercise!

He was summoned to report to the Kogi Police Command to answer to the allegation of culpable homicide but refused to show up until his Abuja resident was seiged from the 29th December 2018, in order to effect his arrest with a court warrant!

Dino was accused of escaping from the scene and had refused to honour Police invitation of the Kogi Police Command to answer to the charges, in spite of the letter written to the Clerk of the National Assembly!
The Police siege on Dino, who holed up himself in his Abuja residence for seven days: 29th December, 2018 - 4th January, 2019, to avoid arrest, ended on Friday when the Police confirmed that Melaye who lied to the world in a tweet that he was out of Abuja, eventually opened the door of his Abuja residence, came out and fell down on in front of the waiting personnel of the Force he surrendered on 4th January, 2019, after a 7-day siege by the Police! The Senator had been transferred to the Police Hospital for medical treatment in order to be very fit for his impending trial in Kogi State

Senator Melaye is a misnomer in high level politics, a very opposite of the distinguished, decent, prestigious and articulate senators of other climes! He had always given Nigerian Government detractors plausible reasons for deriding the nation as the worst as in every comparative analysis of economic, political or social issues!
All bad politicians MUST be voted out of office from 16th February - 2nd March, 2019!
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Prov 14:12).

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