Don’t appear but explain your role in writing within 48hrs, Police tells Saraki
The police have asked the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to explain in writing his connection with the suspects paraded in respect of the Offa bank robberies in which nine policemen and 33 persons were killed and millions of naira stolen.
According to an insider, the police rescinded its initial invitation to the Senate president following pressures and public outcry.
“It seems the police became jittery as many saw the invitation as victimization of the Senate president,” the source disclosed.
Suspects in the fatal armed robbery in Offa, Kwara State, told journalists yesterday that they were working as political thugs for Senate President Bukola Saraki and Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, prompting the police to invite Saraki for questioning.
An alleged gang leader of the Offa bank robbers, Ayoade Akinnibosun, who was paraded with 14 other suspects at the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) Headquarters in Abuja, said he coordinated the bank robberies in April 2018 in which 33 people were killed.
The victims included nine police officers and two pregnant women.
Responding to questions from journalists, the suspect said “My name is Ayoade Akinnibosun and my nick name is (AY). I am the chairman of Liberation Youth Movement Kwara South.”
“My involvement with the Senate President, We are his boys! We work for him at Kwara South; we are the ones that hold Kwara South for him.
“We have been working for him since when we were in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it has been long, when he was Governor of Kwara State.”
Asked the nature of the work they do for Saraki, Akinnibosun said “We are the ones that do political arrangement for him. For example where we can’t win; we make ‘dabaru’ arrangement there…we scatter elections if we don’t win.”
He said, “The connection between me and the Senate president is that he is the one that is arranging everything for us. For example this car was given to me by his excellency Governor Fatai Ahmed, through the Chief of Staff as a gift from the leader, Bukola Saraki.”
The suspect said “I participated in the Offa robbery; I took this Lexus car to Offa.”
Asked if the State Governor or Bukola Saraki was aware of the robbery before they went for it, he said “They did not send us to the robbery, but because we are their political thugs, that was what led us to that robbery.”
Earlier, the spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Jimoh Moshood, who paraded the suspects, named the five gang leaders as: Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez and Niyi Ogundiran, saying all of them confe
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