AGAIN! Dino Melaye fails to appear in court over gunrunning charges

For the second time , the Senator representing Kogi West in the Senate, Dino Melaye , did not appear in court on Wednesday to answer the charges bordering on gunrunning levied against him and two others.
However, the two suspects charged alongside Mr . Melaye — Kabir Seidu , aka Osama; and Nuhu Salihu aka Smally — were in court .

The trial magistrate, Sulyman Abdalah, had, at the last hearing, fixed Wednesday , August 9 , to commence trial following the complaints from Melaye that he was attacked on his way to Lokoja to honour an invitation from the Police .

When the case was called on Wednesday , his lawyer, Barrister Yemi Mohammed , who stood in for Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN ), told the court that his client could not be present in court on health grounds .
Mohammed presented a medical report to that effect, a move that was not opposed to by the legal representative of the Kogi State Police Command , Theophilus Oteme.

The two alleged accomplices , however , applied for bail , saying they have been suffering for a crime they knew nothing about .

Consequently, Abdalah adjourned the case till August 21 for the bail applications of the two alleged accomplices and adjourned to September 20 for hearing in the case of Senator Dino Melaye .