Senator Dino Melaye Bags Awards in US for Anti-corruption, Chibok Girls Advocacy

The senator representing Kogi West  on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Dino Melaye, has bagged two awards in the United States (US) for his anti-corruption crusade and support for the #BringBackOurGirls campaign on the missing Chibok girls.
Melaye in a statement monday, promised to dedicate the award,which would be conferred on him later in August this year, by the US-based Exclusive Accolade International  Magazine, in recognition of his strict stance against corruption in Nigeria, to the missing Chibok girls.

The  Accolade Media, in letter dated June 8, 2015 and signed by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ambassador Ginika Tor and Patron, Mrs. Alanyingi Sylva, said: “this award is in recognition of your outstanding qualities, innovations, immense humanitarian service and demonstration of excellence in your quest and passion to end corruption in Nigeria.”

Responding, Melaye said his commitment to the fight against corruption is a “battle of no retreat, no surrender.”
The convener of the senators of Like minds, which spearheaded the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as  Senate President the eighth National Assembly also promised not to relent in his anti-corruption crusade.

“I thank the organisers of the award and accept in wholeheartedly. I dedicate the award to the missing Chibok girls. I also use this opportunity to pray for their return and this award can only propel me to do more in the anti-corruption fight in Nigeria.

“The battle to rescue Nigeria from economic cankerworms and financial scavengers is a battle of no retreat, no surrender,” he said.
“I use this opportunity to call on Nigerians to join the battle against corruption that has become the bane of our development because in an unjust society, silence is a crime,” he urged.

Meanwhile, the second award ceremony was jointly organised by US-based Southern Barter Club (SBC) led by its President, Laurie A. Sossa and the State of Georgia.

The event, according to its promoters, was “conceptualised  to recognise men and women of distinction in their various areas of endeavour as well as those who have positively impacted our society in very remarkable ways.”

Melaye was before his election to the upper chamber of the National Assembly, the Executive Secretary of Anti-Corruption Network (ACN), a platform registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) through which he checked the excesses of corrupt government officials and Convener, Citizens Arise Movement of Nigeria (CAMON).

Courtesy ThisdayLive