{"id":448950,"date":"2011-06-28T01:45:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/28\/melaye-alleges-threat-to-life\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T01:45:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:45:05","slug":"melaye-alleges-threat-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/28\/melaye-alleges-threat-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Melaye alleges threat to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"86\">\n<p>ABUJA-Leader of the progressive group in the recently concluded sixth session of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, has raised an alarm over plots targeted at his life, following his role in the exposition of former speaker, Dimeji Bankole\u2019s alleged financial impropiety.<\/p>\n<p>Raising the alarm over the threat to his life, Melaye said in Abuja yesterday that he had been receiving threat messages since the beginning of the trial of the former speaker.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had also been threatened with kidnap, outright killing and acid attack, disclosing that he was forced to cry out this time after he discovered that those who had been threatening him traced him to Ghana and back to Nigeria weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been getting these threat messages before I went to Ghana, but I was surprised that upon returning to Nigeria, I got another message detailing all my movement in Ghana and my location at the time of receiving the message and they reiterated their mission and asked me to be ready for them anytime soon<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was treating these threats as non-issue before now, the accuracy with which those after me got my movement in Ghana and in Nigeria call for concern, moreso, when one takes into consideration the state of insecurity in the country,\u201d Melaye stated.<\/p>\n<p>The former member of the Green Chamber from Kogi State removed the lid on the alleged financial impropriety of ex-speaker Dimeji Bankole, leading to his current prosecution by the Economic Financial Crime Commission, EFCC .<\/p>\n<p>Melaye, who was suspended from the House over his hard stance against the leadership style of the ex\u2013speaker only got re-instated by the courts alongside other members who were suspended with him, shortly before the expiration of the last legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>The non-payment of Melaye\u2019s entitlements and his other suspended colleagues led to the call by the agitated legislator who exposed the now celebrated N10 billion bank loan scandal of former speaker, leading to a call by Melaye for his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Hinging his move on the determination to ensure the image of the House of Representatives was cleared of the mess that the alleged sundry financial insincerity of the former speaker had plunged it, Melaye petitioned the EFCC. This necessitated the eventual arrest and incarceration of the former speaker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Go here to see the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/06\/melaye-alleges-threat-to-life\/\" title=\"Melaye alleges threat to life\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melaye alleges threat to life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> ABUJA-Leader of the progressive group in the recently concluded sixth session of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, has raised an alarm over plots targeted at his life, following his role in the exposition of former speaker, Dimeji Bankole\u2019s alleged financial impropiety. Raising the alarm over the threat to his life, Melaye said in Abuja yesterday that he had been receiving threat messages since the beginning of the trial of the former speaker. He said he had also been threatened with kidnap, outright killing and acid attack, disclosing that he was forced to cry out this time after he discovered that those who had been threatening him traced him to Ghana and back to Nigeria weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":448952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-448950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Melaye alleges threat to life - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/28\/melaye-alleges-threat-to-life\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Melaye alleges threat to life - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"ABUJA-Leader of the progressive group in the recently concluded sixth session of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, has raised an alarm over plots targeted at his life, following his role in the exposition of former speaker, Dimeji Bankole\u2019s alleged financial impropiety. 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