Jimoh Moshood, Force Public Relations Officer, said this in Abuja on Wednesday while addressing journalists.
Two more suspected armed
robbers arrested in connection with the high-casualty attack on banks in Offa,
kwara State, in April, have implicated Senate President Bukola Saraki in their
confessional statements.
Jimoh Moshood, Force Public
Relations Officer, said this in Abuja on Wednesday while addressing
journalists.
The latest link of Saraki
to the Offa gang comes three days after five gang leaders who were part of a
dozen that killed 33 people during the wide-ranging operation confessed that
they were being sponsored with firearms, money and operational vehicles by the
Senate President and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State.
As a result, the Police
invited Saraki to the Force Intelligence Response Team office at Guzape, Abuja,
so he can “answer allegations indicting him from confessions of five gang
leaders”. However, Saraki was later informed a written explanation would
suffice.
His security aides — as
well as those of Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of representatives — were
withdrawn by the Department of State Services (DSS) hours after. But they were
restored on Monday, following protests by the new Peoples Democratic party
(nPDP) bloc of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
THE FULL STATEMENT
UPDATE OF POLICE
INVESTIGATION INTO THE INDICTMENT OF SENATE PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
NIGERIA, SEN. BUKOLA SARAKI FROM CONFESSIONS OF FIVE (5) GANG LEADERS ARRESTED
FOR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE OFFA BANKS ROBBERY AND GRUESOME KILLING OF MORE
THAN THIRTY THREE (33) INNOCENT PERSONS INCLUDING PREGNANT WOMEN AND NINE (9)
POLICE OFFICERS ON 5th APRIL, 2018, IN OFFA, KWARA STATE.
“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
“Senate President, Sen.
Bukola saraki is still under investigation in connection with the Offa Bank
Robbery
“It will be recalled that
on 3rd June, 2018, I paraded before the Media and the Public Fifteen (15)
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 (6) Commercial
Banks, attack on Divisional Police Headquarters, Offa and the killing of Thirty
Three (33) innocent persons.
“These five (5) gang
leaders confessed to the Police as follows:
“Ayoade Akinnibosun a.k.a
AY ‘M’ 37Yrs – Gang Leader From Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State. Confessed to
have coordinated the Bank Robbery and the killing of Thirty Three (33) innocent
persons during the bank robbery.
“Ibukunle Ogunleye ‘M’
36Yrs – Gang Leader from Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State, confessed to have
killed Two (2) Persons during the bank robbery.
“Adeola Abraham ‘M’ 35Yrs –
Gang Leader from Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State. Confessed to have killed Five
(5) Persons during the bank robbery.
“Salawudeen Azeez ‘M’ 49Yrs
– Gang Leader from Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State. Confessed to have killed Two
(2) Persons during the bank robbery.
“Niyi Ogundiran ‘M’ 37Yrs –
Gang Leader from Oro, Irepodun LGA, Kwara State. Confessed to have killed Two
(2) Persons during the bank robbery.
“The other Seventeen (17)
suspects volunteered confessional statements admitting their active
participation in the Offa bank robbery; they also corroborated the confessions
of the five (5) principal suspects mentioned in paragraph two (2) above.
“During the parade, the
main gang leader, Ayoade Akinnibosun a.k.a AY ‘M’ 37Yrs, mentioned three (3)
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.
“Two (2) of these suspects
namely Alhaji Kehinde Gobiri aka Captain ‘47yrs’ Native of Ilorin East LGA
Kwara State and Alhaji Oba Shuaib Olododo aka Jawando ‘53yrs’ 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, Sen. Bukola
Saraki. They are currently under investigation and will be charged to court on
completion of investigation.
“Consequent upon all the
above and 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 admitted 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. 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. 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.
“It was also discovered
during further investigations that three (3) 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, Sen.
Bukola Saraki to Oloffa’s Palace when the Senate President paid a condolence
visit to Offa after the Bank Robbery.
“New revelations from
further investigation into the matter show that all the five (5) 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 (5) 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 (5) gang leaders further admitted
that they attended the Senate President daughter’s wedding held recently.
“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.
“Meanwhile, the Senate
President, Sen. 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.
