- The senator representing Kogi West senatorial district has been accused of sharing condoms to his constituency members

- Melaye was also accused of not operating any senatorial office in the constituency

- Locals in the area said only share N1,000 as 'condom' money to them

Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West senatorial district has been accused of sharing condoms to his constituency members.

A recent report by Sahara reporters said unlike his successor, Melaye does not operate any constituency office in Kogi West.

It was gathered that Melaye’s constituency which consists of Lokoja, Ijumu, Kaba/Bunu, Koto/Karfi, Mopa/Amuro, Yagba East and Yagba West local government areas have no office despite allocation received by the senator for such.

A civil servant in the area said Melaye’s predecessor, Smart Adeyemi operated a senatorial office including annexes in other local government areas during his tenure.

While, Melaye provided Iluafon Quarters, Aiyetoro-Gbede, Ijumu local government area, Kogi as his constituency address on his National Assembly, a source said there is no such place in the locality.

“Two places identified as Iluafon, however, are a village of less than ten houses that is about 12 miles away from Aiyetoro-Gbede (where Mr. Melaye has his country home) and an area in Aiyetoro-Gbede called Iluafon because people from the original Iluafon village had migrated there.

“Iluafon Quarters, inside this village? There is nothing like that,” one of the villagers in Iluafon told our correspondent. “And Senator Dino Melaye doesn’t have any office here. Even his family house that used to be in this village before his forefathers moved to Aiyetoro-Gbede has collapsed,” the source said.

Sahara reporters also said a second place referred to as Iluafon area had no quarters as claimed by the senator.

Only a bungalow owned by Melaye’s father could be found in the area, the report said.

“The only place Dino paid for is the APC secretariat for Kogi West. It is along Kaba-Aiyetoro Road, and we don’t expect him to point to that as his senatorial constituency office because he only rented it for the party and the activities done here are for the party,” an APC party member in Kaba told our correspondent.

The politician said: “When we were constituency executives, he wasn’t paying us any allowances.”

The controversial senator was accused of neglecting his people.

“Since he became a senator, what he has done was distributing grinding machines during the last Salah festival, and distributing 10kg bags of rice this Christmas.

“And then there’s the bus he gave to National Union of Road transport Workers,” a resident said.

“Imagine a senator like him with his fat constituency allowance giving 20 bags per ward where mere local government chairmen are giving 50, and only Melaye’s diehard loyalists even get the rice.”

A youth leader in the locality said: “Melaye is a betrayal.”

“We saw him as a young and vibrant politician and that was why we gave him all our support but all he does now is go on social media to announce the purchase of his new cars.

And when he comes home (Kaba/Aiyetoro-Gbede), he deliberately drives through popular junctions where boys are seated to show off his cars and shoes and then he would give N1, 000 each saying use that for condom money.

Tell anybody here about condom money and they already know it’s the N1, 000 Melaye gives boys at junctions where he drives around just to show you his new stuffs.”