The armed robbers confessed that they were sponsored by Saraki and Kwara state Governor
The Senate President Bukola Saraki has been invited by the Nigeria
Police to answer questions after notorious armed robbers behind the deadly robbery of banks in Offa in April confessed they were sponsored by him.
Five principal suspects among 15 others paraded in Abuja in
connection to the Offa robbery indicted the senate president in their
statements. One Ayodele among the suspects and acclaimed leader of the
robbery gang said they were political thugs of Saraki and have been
working for him since when he was governor of Kwara state.
At least 34 people, including nine police officers and two pregnant
women, were killed in shootings during the robbery in Offa. Ayodele
said they were not working on the instruction of Saraki but they worked
with his encouragement.
Read full statement below:
Date: 3rd June, 2018
PRESS BRIEFING
UPDATE OF POLICE INVESTIGATION INTO THE OFFA BANKS ROBBERY AND
GRUESOME MURDER OF MORE THAN THIRTY THREE (33) INNOCENT PERSONS
INCLUDING PREGNANT WOMEN AND NINE (9) POLICE OFFICERS ON 5th APRIL,
2018, IN OFFA, KWARA STATE.
• Twenty Two (22) Suspects now in Police Custody.
• Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki is being invited to report
to the Police to answer allegations indicting him from confessions of
Five (5) Gang leaders arrested for active participation in Offa Bank
Robbery and Killings of THIRTY THREE (33) Innocent persons.
SUSPECTS
i. Ayoade Akinnibosun a.k.a AY ‘M’ 37Yrs – Gang Leader (Coordinated the Killings) From Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State.
ii. Ibukunle Ogunleye ‘M’ 36Yrs – Gang Leader, Killed Two (2) Persons. From Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State
iii. Adeola Abraham ‘M’ 35Yrs – Gang Leader, Killed Five (5) Persons. From Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State.
iv. Salawudeen Azeez ‘M’ 49Yrs – Gang Leader, Killed Two (2) Persons. From Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State.
v. Niyi Ogundiran ‘M’ 37Yrs – Gang Leader, Killed Two (2) Persons (Latest Confession). From Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State.
vi. Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs – Sectional Gang Leader, Killed Twenty Two (22) Persons, mostly at the Police Station.
vii. Kabiru Afolabi ‘M’ 26Yrs – Principal Suspect
viii. Omoseni Kassim ‘M’ 28Yrs – Principal Suspect
ix. Kayode Opadokun ‘M’ 35Yrs – Principal Suspect
x. Kazeem Abdulrasheed ‘M’ 36Yrs – Principal Suspect
xi. Azeez Abdullahi ‘M’ 27Yrs – Principal Suspect
xii. Adewale Popoola ‘M’ 22Yrs – Principal Suspect
xiii. Adetoyese Muftau ‘M’ 23Yrs – Principal Suspect
xiv. Alexander Reuben ‘M’ 39Yrs – Principal Suspect
xv. Richard Buba Terry ‘M’ 23Yrs – Principal Suspect
xvi. Peter Jasper Kuunfa ‘M’ 23Yrs – Principal Suspect
xvii. Ikechukwu Ebuka Nnaji ‘M’ 29Yrs – Principal Suspect
xviii. Moses Godwin ‘M’ 28Yrs – Principal Suspect
xix. Adeola omiyale ‘M’ 38Yrs. From Isanlu Isin Town, Isin LGA, Kwara State.
xx. Femi Idowu ‘M’ 34Yrs
xxi. Alabi Olalekan ‘M’ 49Yrs-PA Political to Executive Governor, Kwara State
xxii. Yusuf Abdulwahab ‘M’ 58Yrs –Chief of Staff to Executive Governor, Kwara State
EXHIBITS
i. Two (2) AK47 Rifles
ii. Two (2) Barrette Pistols
iii. One (1) Pump Action Rifle
iv. One (1) Revolver Pistol – In Police Custody in Ilorin
v. Lexus RX300 Jeep with Reg. No. Kwara, KMA 143 RM belonging to Ayoade Akinnibosun (Gang Leader) – Used for the Bank Robbery
vi. Mercedes Benz – Compressor with Reg. No. Lagos LT496 KJA
belonging to Ayoade Akinnibosun (Gang Leader) – Used for the Bank
Robbery
vii. One (1) Toyota Prado Jeep with Reg. No. 19KWGH belonging to
the PA Political to the Executive Governor, Kwara State – In Police
Custody in Ilorin
viii. One (1) Toyota Camry Saloon Car with Reg. No. LRN 481 FE – In Police Custody in Ilorin
ix. The Cash Sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N600,000.00) – In Police Custody in Ilorin
x. Four (4) Phones of victims recovered
xi. One (1) Sticker plate number with inscription “SARAKI” “Kwara, State of Harmony”
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.
11. Investigation is ongoing and effort is being intensified to
arrest other suspects still at large. All suspects involved will be
arraigned in court for prosecution on completion of investigation.
12. Meanwhile, the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki is being
invited by the Nigeria Police Force to report to the Force Intelligence
Response Team office at Guzape, Abuja to answer to the allegations
levelled against him from the confessions of 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).
13. The Nigeria Police Force will continue to ensure that the rule
of law prevails in every case under Police investigation and every
offender is brought to justice.
ACP JIMOH MOSHOOD
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
FORCE HEADQUARTERS
ABUJA