The Okun Development Association (ODA) and Okun Development Initiative (ODI), while speaking on the issues, appealed to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to intervene and see to the peaceful resolution of the crises within its folds.
National President of ODA, Mr. Femi Mokikan, in a statement yesterday, said from the account of all that has happened in the last 72 hours between the police and the embattled senator, it was obvious that the law enforcement agencies have gone beyond the bounds.
“The Okun people of Kogi State, more than any other people, have justifiable reasons to be apprehensive at the recent ugly dimension that his encounter with the law enforcement agencies has assumed.
“Senator Dino Malaye is like every other person with legitimate claim to any part of Okun-people local government areas, our own. Government must not deploy extra-judicial and extra-legal methods in dealing with suspects.”
General Secretary of ODI, Apostle Olalekan Aiyenigba said: “We agree that no individual is above the law. Every alleged infraction of the law should be investigated. But in the performance of its responsibilities, the police should conform to laid down rules.
“The assumption of innocence as guaranteed by the law must be sacrosanct in the conduct of the police in the current case of Senator Dino Melaye.”
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