Offa bank robbery: Police arrest 2 more suspects, read their incriminating confession against Saraki (photos)

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- The Nigerian police arrested two more suspects in connection to Offa robbery

- The suspects reportedly implicated Senator Bukola Saraki

- They allegedly confessed that they served as thugs to the Senate president

The Nigerian police has arrested two more suspects in relation to the Offa bank robbery.

This was contained in a statement by Jimoh Moshood, the spokesperson of the police. In the statement released on Wednesday, June 6, it was reported that the two suspects gave incriminating confessions against Senate president, Bukola Saraki.

The suspects reportedly accused the Senate president and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara of sponsoring them with weapons as their political thugs.

Read the statement below:

Nigeria Police Force have arrested two (2) out of the three (3) suspects mentioned by the overall gang leader of Offa Bank Robbery Ayoade Akinnibosun a.k.a AY during parade of suspects on 3/6/2018.

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The police presenting the suspects in the Offa bank robbery. Credit: Nigerian Police

It will be recalled that on 3rd June, 2018, I paraded before the media and the public fifteen suspects, (five gang leaders and ten principal suspects) who admitted, confessed and volunteered statements to the Police Investigation Team on the active criminal roles they played in the bank robbery of six commercial banks, attack on Divisional Police Headquarters, Offa and the killing of 33 innocent persons.

One of the suspects in the Offa bank robbery. Credit: Nigerian Police

2. These five gang leaders confessed to the Police as follows:

i. Ayoade Akinnibosun a.k.a AY ‘M’ 37-years – gang leader from Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara state. Confessed to have coordinated the bank robbery and the killing of 33 innocent persons during the bank robbery.

ii. Ibukunle Ogunleye ‘M’ 36-years – gang leader from Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara state. Confessed to have killed two persons during the bank robbery.

iii. Adeola Abraham ‘M’ 35-years – gang leader from Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara state. Confessed to have killed five persons during the bank robbery.

iv. Salawudeen Azeez ‘M’ 49-years – gang leader from Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara state. Confessed to have killed two persons during the bank robbery.

v. Niyi Ogundiran ‘M’ 37 years – gang leader from Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara state. Confessed to have killed two persons during the bank robbery.

3. The other 17 suspects volunteered confessional statements admitting their active participation in the Offa bank robbery; they also corroborated the confessions of the five principal suspects mentioned in paragraph two above.

4. During the parade, the main gang leader, Ayoade Akinnibosun a.k.a AY ‘M’ 37-years, mentioned three other suspected vicious and notorious political thugs and in possession of firearms, ammunition and other dangerous weapons working according to him for the Senate president, Senator Bukola Saraki in the Kwara Central senatorial District, namely Alhaji Kehinde Gobiri aka Captain, Alhaji Oba Shuaib Olododo aka Jawando and Alhaji Dona.

5. Two of these suspects namely Alhaji Kehinde Gobiri aka Captain ‘47-years’ Native of Ilorin East LGA Kwara state and Alhaji Oba Shuaib Olododo aka Jawando ‘53-years’ Native of Ilorin South, Kwara state are now in Police custody and have admitted to various crimes and criminalities they have committed in Kwara Central senatorial district under the guise of political thuggery for the Senate president, Bukola Saraki. They are currently under investigation and will be charged to court on completion of investigation.

6. Consequent upon all the above and the confessions of the five gang leaders namely; Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran and some of the other 17 suspects arrested for direct involvement and active participation in the Offa bank robbery and the gruesome killing of 33 innocent persons admitted and volunteered statements that they were political thugs of the Senate president and the executive governor of Kwara state, Alh. Abdulfatah Ahmed.

The five gang leaders who 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 Saraki and Governor Ahmed. These confessions were made before the media and the public on the 3rd of June, 2018. It is therefore, evidently clear that the Senate president, Saraki, has case to answer.

7. It was also discovered during further investigations that three gang leaders who participated actively in the Offa Bank Robbery (i) Ayoade Akinnibosun aka AY (ii) Ibukunle Ogunleye aka Arrow and (iii) Adeola Abraham followed the Senate president to Oloffa’s Palace when the Senate president paid a condolence visit to Offa after the bank robbery.

8. New revelations from further investigation into the matter show that all the five gang leaders namely; Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran have direct connection to Saraki as new pictures of one of the five gang leaders when paraded by the Police early in the week was in ‘Aso Ebi’ (trouser) used during the Senate president daughter’s wedding. The five gang leaders further admitted that they attended the Senate president daughter’s wedding held recently.

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9. The Nigeria Police Force will not be cowed or succumb to intimidation from any quarter in carrying out a thorough and discreet investigation into the Offa bank robbery where significant successes have been recorded. The ongoing investigation will be driven to a logical conclusion.

10. Meanwhile, the Senate president is still under investigation in connection to the Offa bank robbery and the Nigeria Police Force will do everything possible within the ambit of the law to ensure that justice is done in this case.

It will be recalled that Senate president Bukola Saraki was invited by the police over the deadly robbery that took place at Offa in Kwara state.

The Senate president was invited to answer to allegations surrounding his links to the armed robbers behind the deadly robbery in April, Daily Trust reports.

Jimoh Moshood, the force public relations officer disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday, June 3, while parading 22 suspects in custody for the robbery.

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