Bayelsa East constituency Senator, Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce, has revealed the reason why Senator Dino Melaye jumped out of the Police van when security operatives tried to transport him to Lokoja last week.
In a post via his verified Twitter handle on Monday, Murray-Bruce revealed that he visited the embattled Kogi West senator at the National Hospital in Abuja.
Murray-Bruce expressed his concerns about the embattled senator’s travails, saying, “Very sad to hear what transpired.”
He disclosed that Senator Melaye is asthmatic, but that during his encounter with policemen, “the police gassed him and he could barely breathe.”
Murray Bruce also claimed that Dino Melaye was tear-gassed twice. he said: “Second time they gassed him” (and) “he had to force his way out of the vehicle.”
“Dino literally escaped death,” Murray-Bruce concluded.
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