A Chief Magistrate’s Court
sitting in Wuse, Abuja has granted Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye leave to
travel to the United States, US, for medical treatment.
The embattled lawmaker was arraigned
before the court on May 2 on charges bordering on his alleged escape from a
police vehicle in Abuja on April 24, 2018.
Melaye was alleged to have
jumped-off a police van conveying him to Lokoja.
But at the resumed hearing
yesterday, Melaye’s counsel, John Odubela prayed the court to order the
Commissioner of Police, FCT Command to release the lawmaker’s international
passport to enable him travel to the US for a medical treatment.
Odubela disclosed that the
embattled lawmaker was an asthmatic patient and his health conditions had
deteriorated.
Counsel to the Police, Alex
Izinyon, however opposed Odubela’s prayers, saying the defence did not present
any referral from the National Hospital to the said US hospital.
Ruling on the matter, the presiding
Magistrate, Mabel Segun-Bello held that Melaye be allowed to travel.
Segun-Bello ruled that since
Melaye’s health condition existed before the case was filed and the appointment
at the hospital predated the trial, there was no need for a referral letter.
She ordered that Melaye’s
international passport be released and be allowed to travel out of the country
for treatment for a period of 20 days.
The Magistrate, however, ordered
that Melaye returns the international passport to the custody of the
Commissioner of Police of the FCT upon his return.
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