How Kyari Offered Me N10m, Visa To Implicate Saraki – Offa Robbery Suspect

How Kyari Offered Me N10m, Visa To Implicate Saraki – Offa Robbery Suspect

The trial in the Offa bank robbery case resumed on Wednesday at the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin, the state capital.

During the trial, one of the main suspects, Ayoade Akinninbosun, told the court that a former Head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) squad, Abba Kyari, offered him N10 million to implicate ex-Senate President Bukola Saraki in the armed robbery case.

Akinninbosun stated that Kyari promised him a visa to any country of his choice if he chose to implicate Saraki, but he declined the offer.

The police also charged five suspects – Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibikunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, and two others – with criminal conspiracy to rob banks, murder of nine police officers and other citizens, and illegal possession of firearms.

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It should be noted that approximately ten people were feared killed in the April 5, 2018 incident, while other Offa residents were seriously injured.

However, during cross-examination by Defence Counsel Mathias Emeribe (SAN), Akinninbosun stated that he was offered N10 million to claim that Saraki ordered the bloody robbery.

“He said I should admit and say Saraki was the one who asked us to go and rob. I told him I won’t do that. That I will rather die for what I didn’t do than to lie against an innocent man,” the suspect said.

“He asked me to think over his offer very well. At this point he ordered officers Hassan and Moshood to return me to the cell. A separate one different from where others are and they should stop torturing me,” he said.

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Akinninbosun said he was not allowed to write any statement in Ilorin except his bio-data, until they were conveyed to Abuja in a tinted bus, where he was later kept in a place called “abattoir”.

Saraki, according to Akinninbosun, has nothing to do with the robbery case.

He added, “We were like 15 to 20 taken to Abuja, I only know a few of them. We were put outside and served meals, but I couldn’t eat because my hands were paralyzed due to the torture I went through in their hands in Ilorin. They asked Kunle Ogunleye to feed me.

“They separated five of us, put us in the generator house and Officer Hassan Attila ordered they brought some men. They went to bring five Fulani men. They brought them and killed them all in my presence.

“I was told that was not a film. He asked me to stretch my legs and shot my right leg. He shot the second leg but when I tried shifting the leg, it hit my tomb.”

The defendant then proceeded to show the Court the gunshot wounds on his legs.

Akinninbosun went on to say that one of the robbery suspects, Micheal Adikwu, was shot dead in his presence, which terrified him enough to agree to implicate Saraki in a prepared statement before the press.

However, the case was adjourned until February 13, 2023 by the presiding judge, Justice Alimat Salman.

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