Nigerian Police officers on Wednesday October 23, 2013 arrested former House of Reps member and Executive Director, Anti-Corruption Network, Dino Melaye during a protest at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja. Dino led a group of protesters to the Federal Secretariat, Abuja around 12noon, calling for the sack of the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, over the purchase of two BMW armoured cars.
 
The police led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police in the FCT, Sunday Olukoya, arrived at the scene and promptly arrested Dino Melaye's group. They were taken away in a Toyota Hilux van, marked NPS 21280 at about one this afternoon.


It would be recalled that Aviation Minster, Stella Oduah was enmeshed in an alleged misappropriation scandal, where she allegedly ordered the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority to buy her two bullet-proof BMW cars, worth $1.6m (N255m).