Photo news: Why is Senator Dino Melaye kneeling at the Senate in this photograph?

Senator Dino Melaye is never far from controversy as he recently shared a photo of himself kneeling and calling at the Senate to save Kogi workers.

“Please help us Kogi workers are dying,” the senator representing Kogi West in the 8th National Assembly besought the Senate.

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We couldn’t help but capture the expression on the faces of his colleagues at the Senate.

Meanwhile, Nigerians have reacted to the photograph with some saying if the Senator should sell one his luxury cars, he could feed a lot of ailing workers.

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“Bros if you sell one, I repeat just one pere of those your unlimited luxury cars you will buy over 10,000 bags of rice but your love for Luxury wont let you do rather you kneel down to beg… Shior!,” Olatunbosun Lasisi commented.

Another of his follower, Tope Barude commented thus: “We cannot be fool @dinomelaye you lack the moral right to criticize Yahaya Bello as a member of the National Assembly for hw many years now you have not done anything for us. Pot calling kettle black”.

“Can we be real for once and avoid politics pls between senator dino melaye and yahaya bello who actually deserves a recall. Eziokwu I pity kogi people,” stated Debby.

“What do you expect from someone that is not voted for as a governor of the state,” Abayomi Rabiu said.

Meanwhile, the Senator had said 40 Nigerian senators have donated at least 1,260 bags of rice to civil servants in Kogi State a few days after a director in the State civil service reportedly killed himself over unpaid emolument.

“Today, in my state we live in perilous time and vicissitude. The social media and newspapers have been awash few days with unfortunate incident of a civil servant who committed suicide upon receiving information that his wife gave birth to triplets”, he said.

“He is (was) being owed 11 months’ salary. Another civil servant was seen crying because he could not provide N3000 for drugs and the child died.

“Their salaries must be paid; pensioners must be paid. How many more people will commit suicide before Yahaya Bello pays salaries? We don’t want to see more deaths in Kogi state,” the senator further stated.

Addressing journalists at the end of the plenary, Senator Melaye disclosed that Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, donated 100 bags of rice to Kogi workers while the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, donated 30 bags of rice.

Other senators, he added, donated between 10 to 70 bags.

He added that Philip Aduda donated 10 bags of fertiliser while other lawmakers would donate more materials within the week.

Mr. Melaye, while calling on good spirited Nigerians to also donate relief materials to Kogi State workers, said, these donations would help ameliorate the sufferings of the workers in “this satanic manifestation of Yahaya Bello’s administration.”

He said the Nigerian Labour Congress in Kogi state will coordinate the distribution of the relief materials.

The Kogi State Government had earlier absolved itself of any blame in the death of the director, Edward Soje, saying he was involved in age falsification, which made him unable to receive his salary early.