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Read Police statement detailing how arrested suspects linked Saraki, Kwara state governor in Offa bank robbery (photos)
Read Police statement detailing how arrested suspects linked Saraki, Kwara state governor in Offa bank robbery (photos)
Read the statement from the police on how arrested suspects linked
Senate President Bukola Saraki and Kwara state governor, Abdulfatah
Ahmed, in Offa bank robbery and murder of over 30 persons. Read below
The investigation into the Offa Bank Robbery and gruesome killings of
more than THIRTY THREE (33) Innocent persons in Offa, Kwara State on
the 5th April, 2018 directed by the Inspector General of Police, IGP
Ibrahim K. Idris, NPM, mni, has made significant progress, successes and
more revelations have been recorded. The Gang Leaders and some of the
principal suspects arrested for their active participation in the
robbery and the killing of innocent persons have made confessional
statements admitting to the various criminal roles they and their
sponsors played in this dastard and heinous crime.
2. The Five (5) gang leaders namely; Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibukunle
Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran and some of
the other Seventeen (17) suspects arrested for direct involvement and
active participation in the Offa Bank Robbery and the gruesome killing
of THIRTY THREE (33) innocent persons which includes (some pregnant
women and nine (9) Police personnel) admitted, confessed and volunteered
statements that they were political thugs of the Senate President,
Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sen. Bukola Saraki and the Executive
Governor of Kwara State, Alh. Abdulfatah Ahmed.
3. The arrests of the above mentioned Five (5) Gang Leaders and
seventeen (17) others were made possible after the arrest of two
principal suspects (Kunle Ogunleye aka Arrow 35yrs and Michael Adikwu an
Ex-Convict) whose pictures captured by CCTV in one of the Banks during
the Banks robbery were circulated to the media and the public. The two
(2) principal suspects confessed to be among the suspects led by the
five (5) gang leaders listed in paragraph 2 above to carry out the Offa
Banks Robbery, the attack on the Divisional Police Headquarters, Offa
and the killings of THIRTY THREE (33) innocent persons on the 5th of
April, 2018.
4. During interrogation, the five (5) gang leaders mentioned in
paragraph 2 further confessed and volunteered statements that they
carried out the Bank Robberies, the attack on the Divisional Police
Headquarters in Offa and the killings of THIRTY THREE (33) innocent
persons during the robbery of the following six (6) banks (i) First Bank
Offa (ii) Guarantee Trust Bank Offa (iii) ECO Bank Offa (iv) Zenith
Bank Offa (v) Union Bank Offa (vi) Ibolo Micro Finance Bank Offa and
(vii) the Divisional Police Headquarters, Offa on 5th April, 2018.
5. Millions of Naira from the Banks and Twenty One (21) AK47 Rifles
belonging to the Nigeria Police Force in the Armoury of the Police
Divisional Headquarters, Offa were admitted to have been carted away by
the Five (5) gang leaders and the other Seventeen (17) principal
suspects during the Banks robbery.
6. The Five (5) gang leaders confessed and volunteered statements to
the Police investigators, giving a clear account of how they planned and
carried out the Banks robbery operation in Offa, the attack on the
Police Division in Offa and how they killed the THIRTY THREE (33)
innocent persons during the robbery.
7 The Five (5) gang leaders further confessed during investigation
that they are political thugs under the name Youth Liberation Movement
a.k.a “Good Boys” admitted and confessed to have been sponsored with
firearms, money and operational vehicles by the Senate President, Sen.
Bukola Saraki and the Governor of Kwara State, Alh. Abdulfatah Ahmed.
8. In the course of discreet investigation into the confessions of
these five (5) gang leaders and the other seventeen (17) principal
suspects, a Lexus jeep GX-300 (Ash Colour) with a sticker plate number
with inscription “SARAKI” “Kwara, State of Harmony” used by the gang
leader (Ayoade Akinnibosun ‘M’ 37Yrs) during the bank robbery and the
killing of the THIRTY THREE (33) innocent persons was taken to
Government House, Ilorin on 16th May, 2018 where the sticker plate
number with inscription “SARAKI” “Kwara, State of Harmony” was removed
before another plate number (Reg. No. Kwara, KMA 143 RM) registered in
the name of Ayoade AKinnibosun the Overall Commander of the Offa Bank
Robbery was then attached to the vehicle to cover up the identity of the
said vehicle. The exhibit vehicle was subsequently recovered from the
premises of the Min. of Environmental and Forestry in Ilorin, Kwara
State. While the sticker plate number with inscription “SARAKI” “Kwara,
State of Harmony” removed from the vehicle was recovered from one Adeola
Omiyale who drove the said Lexus Jeep to Government House, Ilorin
immediately after the Bank Robbery.
9. The Personal Assistant (Political) to the Executive Governor of
Kwara State, Mr. Alabi Olalekan, who is privy to information that the
Police is looking for the lexus Jeep as an exhibit used in the Offa Bank
Robbery and the killings of THIRTY THREE (33) innocent persons directed
one Adeola Omiyale to relocate the Lexus Jeep to Government House,
Ilorin. The PA (Political) is currently in Police custody and has made
useful statement assisting the Police in further investigation into the
case. A revolver pistol and pump action gun were recovered by the Police
Investigation Team from the Personal Assistant (Political) to the
Executive Governor of Kwara State, Mr. Alabi Olalekan’s Farm where he
directed his brother to hide them after his arrest by the Police.
10. In order to conceal evidence, the Chief of Staff to the Executive
Governor of Kwara State, Mr. Yusuf Abdulwahab who has been arrested and
taken into Police custody, arranged the removal of the sticker plate
number with inscription “SARAKI” “Kwara, State of Harmony” from the
exhibit vehicle and also registered the exhibit Lexus Jeep used in the
Offa Bank Robbery and the killings of THIRTY THREE (33) innocent persons
in the name of Ayoade AKinnibosun, the overall Gang Commander of the
Offa Bank Robbery while the Ayoade AKinnibosun was already in Police
custody for more than six (6) days before the registration of the
vehicle.
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