Standup9ja: Offa robberies: Police insist Saraki must appear before interrogators
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) today insisted that Senate President Bukola Saraki must appear in person before investigators to be interrogated over his alleged links to the infamous Offa Banks robberies.
NPF spokesman ACP Jimoh Moshood told Journalist in Abuja on
Wednesday that the police did not ask Saraki to reply allegations
leveled against him in writing.
Moshood made this known while parading two more suspects
recently arrested over the Offa Bank robbery indicted Senate President
Bukola Saraki.
He said the Police have arrested two out of the three suspects
mentioned by the overall gang leader of Offa Bank Robbery Ayoade
Akinnibosun during parade of suspects on 3rd June 2018.
He recalled that, “on 3rd June, 2018, I paraded before the Media
and the Public Fifteen suspects, (Five ‘5’ Gang Leaders and Ten ‘10’
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 Thirty Three innocent
persons.
He explained that during the parade, the main gang leader, Ayoade
Akinnibosun 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,
Sen. Bukola Saraki in the Kwara central Senatorial District, namely
Alhaji Kehinde Gobiri aka Captain, Alhaji Oba Shuaib Olododo aka Jawando
and Alhaji Dona.
Moshood said the two suspects; Kehinde Gobiri and Oba Shuaib
Olododo 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,
Sen. Bukola Saraki.
He noted that, “They are currently under investigation and will be charged to court on completion of investigation.
“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, Sen. Bukola Saraki has case to answer,”he added.
Moshood said, “It was also discovered during further investigations
that three gang leader; Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola
Abraham followed the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki to Oloffa’s
Palace when the Senate President paid a condolence visit to Offa after
the Bank Robbery.”
He said, “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 the Senate President, Sen. Bukola 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.”
He also said, “The Five gang leaders further admitted that they attended the Senate President daughter’s wedding held recently.”
Moshood said, “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.”
He said, “The Senate President, Bukola Saraki 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.”
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