Frank Condemns Police Siege On Melaye’s House

Former Deputy National Publicity of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has condemned in strong terms the ongoing police siege on Senator Dino Melaye’s house, ostensibly to arrest him and keep him out of circulation ahead of the 2019 polls.
Frank in a statement in Abuja, described the invasion as a part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s latest strategy to forcefully incarcerate vocal members of the opposition in order to pave way for APC’s victory in the forthcoming polls.
He noted that having seen defeat staring at them, they are now in a panic and desperate mood to cling to power at all cost. He insisted that resorting to illegal arrest and incarceration of major opposition figures in the country is a terror tactic already activated by the Buhari administration to drive opposition underground.
According to him, the invasion of Senator Melaye’s house and the disconnection of his public utilities, power and water, amounts to visiting terror on an innocent Nigerian by a state funded security organisation. “This is condemnable and unacceptable in a democracy.”
Frank said: “Earlier in the life of this dictatorial administration, agents of the Department of State Services (DSS) forcefully gained entrance into the residence of some Judicial Officers in the midnight, all in the name of anti-corruption crusade.
“The Nigerian police has now taken this impunity a notch higher by disconnecting water and power supply from the House of a Federal legislator for no justifiable cause. This is the second time the police would besiege Melaye’s house under the present Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
“We must all condemn this terrorist act being visited on a Nigerian citizen. Today it is Melaye. Tomorrow it might be you or me. Nobody is safe in this country any more. If you escape being mowed down by criminals and outlaws because of the inability of security forces to protect the people, the same security forces will come after you by breaking your house and disrupting your water and power supply, all in the name of trying to arrest you to face spurious charges”.