BMW Scandal: Campaigner For Aviation Minister’s Resignation Arrested Nigerian activist, Dino Melaye has been arrested by the Nigerian police in Abuja as he led a demonstration, calling for the resignation of the BMW car scandal-minister, Princess Stella Oduah of the aviation ministry. Oduah is mired in a scandal of buying two armored BMW cars at an outrageous price of N255m. The National Assembly has charged two committees to probe the scandal. Melaye, who led a group of protesters to the Federal Secretariat around noon on Tuesday was arrested by a group of policeman headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police in the FCT, Sunday Olukoya. Melaye, a former member of the House of Representativesis also the executive director, anti-corruptionnetwork, based in Abuja. The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, said Melaye’s arrest was highly reprehensible. CACOL Executive Chairman, Debo Adeniran, described the action of the police as “leaving the message to fight the messenger”. “Why should they leave the message to fight the messenger? It is like throwing the baby away with the bath water,” said Adeniran, who added: “When has it become an offence for any Nigerian to protest against what he feels is not right? That is a violation of the gentleman’s fundamental rights, which this set of our leaders swore an oath to protect.” Adeniran said it is unfortunate that people who rode on the back of the rule of law to get to power could turn around to deny Nigerian masses basic rights. The anti-corruption crusader however urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe into the activities of the Aviation Minister for abuse of office; and also urged the agency to probe the activities of the all aviation agencies under Oduah. -P.M. News
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:26:32 +0000
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