Masked officers moved Dino Melaye from hospital bed

Masked police operativesinvaded stormed the medical center where Dino Melaye, the Senator representing Kogi West, was receiving treatment and whisked him off his hospital bed.

 News learned that Melaye was said to have been taken to Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, for interrogation over the alleged shooting of Sgt. Danjuma Aliu by suspected political thugs of the lawmaker in Kogi

Mr. Melaye was arrested last week after police laid siege on his home in Maitama, Abuja, for eight days.

He turned himself in after hiding in the house for days. Mr. Melaye has been in the hospital since then.

Police accuse the senator of being involved in the shooting of an officer in his native Kogi State.

The officers forced the lawmaker, who was on the hospital bed, into an unmarked vehicle and drove him to an undisclosed location, witnesses at the hospital told