Operatives of the
Intelligence Response Team led by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari,
have arrested more suspects in connection with the April 5 Offa bank robberies
during which 33 persons were killed.
The
additional suspects were apprehended in Kwara, Oyo and Kogi states and were
assisting the police to track down other accomplices.
A source, who declined to
give the number of the suspects, explained that two AK 47 rifles were also
recovered from them.
The source told Punch that,
“The fresh suspects belonged to the Michael Adikwu’s gang, the dismissed
policeman and an ex-convict. He actually led our men to the hideout of the men
where they were arrested.”
The fresh suspects, it was
learnt, would soon be brought to Abuja and paraded before the media.
Meanwhile, the Senate
President, Bukola Saraki, has denied any link to the five gang leaders that
were involved in the bank robberies.
A source explained that
Saraki, in his response submitted to the police last Thursday, stated that as a
politician, he had a large following and could not possibly know all his
supporters.
The police had said that
their investigation into the matter showed that all the five gang leaders,
namely: Akinnibosun, Ibikunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez and
Niyi Ogundiran, have direct connections to the Senate President.
The force stated that the
suspected criminals were at Saraki’s daughter’s wedding and also went with him
to visit the Olofa of Offa, when he paid the traditional ruler a condolence
visit in the aftermath of the robberies.
It also explained that one
of the five gang leaders, Abraham, was wearing the ‘Aso Ebi’ used during the
Senate President’s daughter’s wedding, indicating that he was close to Saraki.
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