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  • Offa robbery: Police quiz Senate president

    Detectives interrogated yesterday Senate President Bukola Saraki over the Offa, Kwara State, robbery.

    Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the Police met Saraki in his National Assembly, Abuja, office in the afternoon.

    Saraki was grilled for close to two hours, sources said he responded to questions raised by the police investigation team.

    Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris on Monday wrote to request Saraki’s   appearance on Tuesday to clear himself of alleged relationship with five principal suspects in the Offa bank robbery investigation.

    No fewer than 33 people, including policemen were killed in the robbery.

    Saraki failed to honour the invitation but wrote to ask the IGP to detail his men to come to his office to interrogate him as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Apparently in compliance with President Buhari’s directive that Saraki should either be quizzed in his office or asked to give written information, the IGP drafted his officials to Saraki’s office to quiz him on the incident.

    Police spokesman Jimoh Moshood, in a statement, said contrary to the insinuation by an online medium that Attorney General and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami advised the police against pressing any charges against the Senate President for lack of evidence, the Minister of Justice recommended further investigation.

    Moshood said: “The DPP’s advice did not exonerate the Senate President; it only called for further investigations into the matter

    “It is in the course of further investigations into the case that a letter of invitation dated 23rd July, 2018 was sent to the Senate President to appear on 24thJuly, 2018 at 8.00am before the Investigation Team at Intelligence Response Team office, Guzape Junction, Abuja.

    “Consequently, the Force is hereby re-affirming that the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki, has a case to answer by virtue of the facts that the statements submitted by the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki, earlier to the Investigation Team was not explicit and detailed enough, and was discovered to require further clarifications and interrogation, and coupled with the fact the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki, in his statement, claimed that the full text of the statement of the suspects who indicted him in their confessional statements to the Police was not shown to him.

    “The Force wishes to inform the media and the public that investigation is still ongoing on the Offa bank robbery and the indictment against the Senate President from the confessions of some of the arrested principal suspects, and that, there is no  political influence or consideration in the matter.”

  • Offa robbery: Court grants Ahmed’s aide bail

    A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin has granted an interim bail to the Chief Staff of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, Alhaji Yusuf Abdulwahab.

    Abdulwahab has been in police custody in Abuja since June 2 for his alleged link with the suspects, who robbed commercial banks in Offa, on April 5.

    Justice M.O. Adewara granted the bail after considering the oral application for bail made on behalf of the aide by his counsel, Mr. Adebayo Adelodun (SAN), and the response of the counsel to the respondent, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris.

    Abdulwahab prayed for an order at the Federal High Court, Abuja, to grant him bail.

    He said he had been in police custody for more than the 24 hours allowed by law, without a charge.

    But the judge, Justice Babatunde Quadri, rejected the bail application on the grounds that the case was outside the jurisdiction of his court.

    He ordered the transfer of the case to the High Court of Kwara State.

    The case was assigned to Justice Adewara, who issued a hearing notice to the respondent, and fixed hearing for July 17.

    According to the chief of staff’s counsel, no one represented the IGP, or filed any process on the date of hearing.

    Adelodun moved the court to grant his client’s bail application.

    The court ajourned the case till July 24 for ruling.

    On July 19, the legal officer for the police  filed a notice of preliminary objection to the case, and a counter-affidavit to the application for bail.

    As a result, the ruling on  Tuesday could not be delivered.

    Adelodun made an oral application for his client’s interim bail, pending the determination of the main application.

    He said counsel to the IGP did not object to the application, and left it to the discretion of the court.

    The IGP’s counsel, however, sought to move a motion for extension of time, which was granted by the court.

    Justice Adewara granted the chief of staff bail at N10 million with two sureties.

    He ruled the sureties must be persons of means and should swear to an affidavit and deposit their certificates of occupancy of land located anywhere in Kwara State.

    He adjourned the case till October 15 for hearing of the motion.

  • Saraki explains failure to honour police invitation personally

    Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Wednesday said that he did not honour the invitation by the Police to report to their station in Guzape Abuja over the Offa robbery because he answered all the questions raised in a letter to the police.

    The Senate President said that his letter to the Police on the invitation written on Tuesday was duly acknowledged.

    Saraki who gave the explanation through his Special Adviser Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said that all the issues and questions raised in the police invitation letter were answered, Saraki said that the letter was written and dispatched to the police on Tuesday.

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    He noted that after answering all the questions raised by the police in his letter, he did not believe that there was any further need for him to go to the police personally.

    The Senate President added that he believed that his letter to the police was enough hence there was no need for him to go personally to the police for the same issue.

    The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, had on Monday invited Saraki to appear before the Police Special Anti-Robbery Unit in Guzape to answer questions over his alleged involvement in the Offa robbery incident.

    Saraki had stated in an earlier response that the invitation to him by the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa robbery investigation was “a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve political purpose. “

    He said that he has it on good authority that the Police had already decided on the suspects to arraign in court in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mohammed U.E. and that the turn around to invite him was a ploy aimed at scoring cheap political points.

    He said, “I have been reliably informed that the police invitation was planned by IG as a ploy to stop an alleged plan by some Senators and House of Representatives members from defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC). It was also said that if I was detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, that will abort the so-called defection plan.

    “While I continue to maintain that the issue of my position on the 2019 elections is not a personal decision for me alone to make, it should be noted that all these concoctions and evil plot cannot deter me. Those behind this fresh assault will fail as I have nothing to do with the robbery incident or any criminal matter for that matter.

    “I am aware that following a request made by the Police on June 13, 2018 to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) of the Federation had written a legal advice  dated June 22, 2018, in which he stated on page 5, paragraph (f) that “For the Senate President and the Kwara State Governor, this office is unable to establish from the evidence in the interim report a nexus between the alleged office and the suspects”.

    “The Police have obviously corrupted and politicized their investigations into the Offa robbery incident. They have turned it into an instrument for the party in power to suppress perceived opponents, witch-hunt issue for blackmailing people from freely choosing which platform on which they want to pursue their ambition and a matter for harassing the people whose exit from APC would harm the chances of the party in the forthcoming elections.

    “I want to make it apparent that I have no hand in either the robbery incident or any criminal activity. The Police in their haste to embarrass me sent the invitation to me at 8pm and requested that I report to the station by 8am tomorrow morning. This obviously demonstrated their desperation as I do not see why they are now in a hurry.

    “They also stated in today’s letter that because in my response of June 7, 2018 to their own letter written on June 4, 2018, I stated that I was responding simply to the contents of the letter and that the full text of the statement made by the arrested suspects which they claimed indicted me was not made available to me, they were now including the suspects statements in the current letter. Yet, instead of including the suspects’ statements, they only attached two copies of my own letter to the invitation. No suspects’ statement was made available.

    “This plot aimed at compelling me and my associates to stay in a party where members are criminalized without just cause, where injustice is perpetrated at the highest level and where there is no respect for constitutionalism is an exercise in futility and it will fail.

    “Once again, my confidence in God and our judicial system remains intact and unshaken. The truth shall also prevail in this case.”

     

  • Offa Robbery: Court grants Kwara Gov’s Chief of Staff bail

    A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday granted an interim bail to Alhaji Yusuf Abdulwahab, the Chief of Staff to the Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, in the sum of N10million.

    Abdulwahab has been held in police custody in Abuja since 2 June, 2018 after he responded to Police invitation over his alleged link with suspects who carried out robbery attacks on commercial banks in Offa on April 5, 2018.

    Hon. Justice M.O. Adewara granted the bail upon carefully considering the oral application for bail made on behalf of the governor’s aide by his counsel, Mr. Adebayo Adelodun (SAN) and the response of the counsel for the respondent, the Inspector General of Police.

    It will be recalled that the Chief of Staff had initially filed a motion on notice before a Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order granting him bail from police custody on the grounds that he had been detained for longer than 24 hours allowed by law, without charge.

    But the presiding judge, Justice Babatunde Quadri rejected the bail application on the grounds that the subject matter of the case was outside the jurisdiction of his court. He therefore, ordered the transfer of the case to the High Court of Kwara State for hearing and determination.

    The case was, thereafter assigned to Justice Adewara, who issued a hearing notice to the respondent, and initially fixed hearing for Tuesday, 17 July, 2018.

    However, according Adelodun, no one represented the IG or filed any process on the said date of the hearing.

    The Senior Advocate of Nigeria then moved the court to grant his client’s bail application. The court then adjourned the case till Tuesday, 24 July, for ruling.

    However, on Thursday, 19 July, the Officer in Charge Legal for the Police filed three processes, seeking for time to file a response, a notice of preliminary objection to the case and a counter affidavit to the application for Abdulwahab’s bail.

    As a result, the ruling which was scheduled for Tuesday could, therefore, not be delivered.

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    Consequently, counsel to the Chief of Staff, made an oral application for his interim bail pending the determination of the main application.

    According to Adelodun, Counsel to IGP did not object the application and left it to the discretion of the court. The IGP’s counsel however, sought to move a motion for extension of time, which was granted by the court.

    Thereafter, Justice Adewara in his ruling, granted the Chief of Staff bail in the sum of N10million with two sureties each in like sum.

    The judge also ruled that the sureties must be persons of means and should swear to an affidavit of means and deposit to the court, their respective certificates of occupancy of house or land located anywhere in Kwara State.

    He adjourned the case to 15 October, 2018 for hearing of the motion.

  • Offa Robbery: Saraki shuns police invitation

    President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki on Tuesday failed to honour the invitation of the Nigeria Police Force over his indictment in the Offa bank robbery.

    The force had invited Saraki to report to the Head of investigation team, of the Intelligence Response Team ( IRT) on July 24 at 8 a.m. in Guzape, Abuja.

    The invitation was in connection with the confession made by five suspects in the April 5 robbery that they were political thugs of Saraki.

    The Force Spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, while addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, said that there was no timeline to the invitation.

    Moshood said that the force would not shy away from its constitutional responsibilities of crime detection.

    “The Nigeria police force will not abdicate from its constitutional responsibilities of detection of crimes and criminalities, and will always treat crime as crime no matter who is involved.

    “The force remains focused and will not be distracted from carrying out a discreet  and thorough investigation into the indictment of the Senate President,”he,said.

    He said that Saraki had case to answer and it was  consequent upon that that he was invited to appear before the IRT.

    He said that Saraki was not harassed and intimidated physically or otherwise by any police personnel as reported by some media.

    “It is also absolutely untrue that Saraki was harassed, threatened or intimidated physically or otherwise by any Police personnel either from the Force Headquarters or any other formation of the Force,”he said.

    Moshood implored members of the public to disregard and discountenance the report of the blockade of the residence, harassment and threat to Saraki’s life.(NAN)

  • Detectives to quiz Saraki over Offa robbery today

    Inspector-General of Police  (IGP) Ibrahim Idris has asked Senate President Bukola Saraki to report at the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Force today.

    The invitation, according to the IG, is in connection with the ongoing investigation of the Offa robbery in which many people died. But, to Saraki, it is all a “political game.”

    According to the letter dated 23rd July, 2018 and signed by the IG, the Senate President is expected to report to the head of the IRT team by 8am.

    The Police said the invitation was imperative, considering the earlier statement  sent in by the Senate President.

    Details of the letter of invitation, which was addressed to the Senate President, reads: “Letter of Invitation; Case of Offa robbery and gruesome murder of more than 31 persons and snatching of 21 AK47 rifles on the 5th of April, 2018.

    “Recall that the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) is investigating a case of armed robbery which occurred on the 5th of April, 2018 during which a gang of dare devil armed robbers stormed Offa, Kwara State and attacked a police station, robbed six banks, namely First Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, Ecobank, Zenith Bank, Union Bank and lbolo Micro Finance Bank, killed over thirty one (31) persons, including nine police officers and pregnant women and snatched twenty (21) AK47 n’fles.

    “During the investigation of the armed robbery by the Intelligence Response Team, a CCTV footage of the armed robbery in one of the banks, captured the image of two persons. The CCTV footage was circulated on the social media and this led to their identification as Kunle Ogunleye and Micheal Adikwu. The two persons were tracked and arrested by the Police and they made very useful statements and named the five gang leaders who organized the Armed Robbery.

    “Some of the five gang leaders made confessional statements admitting their participation in this worst armed robbery in the history of Nigeria and that they are political thugs under the name, Youth Liberation Movement, aka ‘Good boys’, allegedly sponsored by you and that you have given them firearms, money and vehicles. It was equally discovered that one of the vehicles, a Lexus Jeep, used by the gang leader (Ayoade Akinnibosun) has a sticker plate number “‘SARAKI’ Kwara State of Harmony”.

    The letter continues: “The Lexus Jeep was parked in the Government House after the arrest of Ayoade Akinnibosun and in order to conceal evidence, the Chief of Staff to the Executive Governor of Kwara State, arranged for the removal of the sticker plate number “SARAKI Kwara State of Harmony” from the Lexus jeep and quickly registered it in the name of the suspect, six days after the suspect has been arrested by the Police.

    “Specifically Mr Ayoade Akinnibosun ‘m’ 27 years in his confessional statement, stated that “members of his group are political thugs working for Senator Bukola Saraki and Governor of Kwara State”. That he is the head of the political thugs named Youths Liberation Movement covering about seven (7) local governments areas of Kwara South.

    “That he gets vehicle and monetary gifts etc from Senator Bukola Saraki through the Chief of Staff to the Governor of Kwara State; that the last money he got directly from Senator Bukola Saraki was five hundred thousand (N500,000) naira.

    “He made mention of some other thugs in Kwara Central with guns which Senator Bukola Saraki is sponsoring as Alhaji Alawo, Alhaji Dona, Alhaji Jawando, among others, that Senator Bukola Saraki supplies the armsand vehicles to the thugs; that everyone in Kwara Central fear them because of their guns and ability to kill anybody without hesitation.”

    “Furthermore, the suspect Ayoade Akinibosun, stated that the date you Senator Saraki visited Offa in sympathy with the victims to the palace of the Oba, that he and two other gang members were with you in the convoy.

    “In your response to the above allegations, you stated: “By virtue of my participation in politics, I have a large followership which makes it impossible for me to know all of them. I can say categorically that I am in no way associated with the vehicle mentioned in your letter nor have I given any arms to any thug or other persons in Kwara State or anywhere else. For the records, your letter under reference did not include the full text of the statements made by the accused persons.”

    The IG went on: “After a careful perusal of your letter to the Police, it was discovered that the statement requires further clarification and coupled with the fact that you stated that the full text of the statements of the suspects were not shown to you, it is imperative you to report to the Police to make further statements after giving you the full text of the statements of the suspects.

    “It is in line with the above that you are requested to report to the head of the Investigation Team at the Intelligence Response Team at Guzape Junction, Asokoro Extension Abuja on 24th of July, 2018 at 8am for further investigation on the matter.”

  • Offa robbery: Court denies Kwara Gov’s aide bail

    A Federal High Court in Abuja has declined the request for bail made by Yusuf Abdulwahab, the Chief of Staff to Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed.

    Abdulawahad is being held in Abuja by the police in relation to the April 5 Offa bank robberies.

    No fewer than 33 persons, including pregnant women and nine policemen, died in the incident, according to the police.

    Justice Babatunde Quadri yesterday declined an application filed by Abdulwahab where he prayed the court to, among others, restore his liberty.

    Abdulwahab approached the court via a motion ex-parte, which the court earlier heard and ordered the applicant to serve the respondent – the Inspector General of Police – to show cause why the applicant’s reliefs should not be granted.

    His lawyer, Adebayo Adelodun (SAN), noted that despite being served with the motion, as ordered by the court, the respondent has refused to respond.

    He prayed the court to grant his client’s request on the grounds that he was being held unjustly.

    Adelodun said his client, who is based in Kwara State, only honoured an invitation from the police in relation to his alleged link with the robbery.

    He said his client was subsequently arrested and brought to Abuja, where he has been in detention since without charges.

    When asked if the court has the subject matter jurisdiction to hear and grant the application,

    Adelodun answered in the affirmative. He argued that the subject matter of the case, which is the alleged infraction of his client’s right to liberty, occurred in Abuja.

    He said: “On subject matter jurisdiction, our contention is that the subject of this matter, as evinced by the reliefs sought, is the breach and continued breach of the applicant’s right to liberty.

    “The entirety of paragraph 4 of the supporting affidavit merely provides background to the subject-matter, which did not come into play until May 31, when he got to Abuja, taken to Guzampe and locked up.

    “The cause of action in this case is the detention of the applicant, not the robbery that happened in Offa. The police could have invited him in Kwara and locked him up ther; that would have required us filing our action there. But they brought him to Abuja.

    “There was no infraction of the applicant’s right in Kwara State; the infraction happened in Abuj.”

    Justice Quadri said the subject matter of the case was outside the jurisdiction of his court.

    He, however, elected to transfer the case to the High Court of Kwara State, which he said has the necessary jurisdiction, to hear and determine the case.

  • Offa robbery: Court rejects governor’s aide’s bail application

    A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday declined the bail application filed by the Chief of Staff to Kwara State Governor, Yusuf Abdulwahab.

    Abdulawahad is one of those being held in by the police over the April 5 bank robbery in Offa, Kwara State.

    At least 33 persons including some pregnant women and nine police officers were killed in the incident.

    Justice Babatunde Quadri, in a ruling, declined the bail application, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/624/18, filed by Abdulwahab.

    In the application, the governor’s aide prayed the court to restore his liberty.

     

  • Offa robbery: Don’t distract Police investigation, citizens tell Monarch

    Some indigenes of Offa, Offa local government area of Kwara state have called on the Olofa of Offa, Oba Muftau Gbadamosi not to distract the police by his utterances, from conducting a meticulous investigation into April 5th robbery incident in the town.

    They accused the monarch of supporting Senate President Bukola Saraki in a newspaper interview recently. The indigenes under aegis of Concerned Citizens of Offa Community urged Oba Gbadamosi to “retrace his steps by tendering an unreserved apology to the great people of Offa for insulting their sensibilities.”

    The group in a statement by its Chairman and Secretary, Alhaji Moshood Adeogun and Rasheed Muritala said the Olofa’s assertion was totally against the interest of the citizens of Offa community.

    Read Also: Two other Offa robbery suspects implicated Saraki – Police

    The statement reads: “It is out of place for the Kabiyesi to have classified those that participated in the anti-Saraki’s protest as ‘politicians who are not saying the truth.’ probably, he was not sufficiently briefed when he came back from lesser hajj as the anti-Saraki’s protest was dominated by the amalgamated groupings of artisans, traders, students, government workers and concerned sons and daughters of Offa community who patriotically participated in the protest to defend the hard-earned integrity and the future of the town.

    “Instead of calming frayed nerves and empathising with the trumatised and brutalised people of Offa, Oba Gbadamosi was desperately playing the role of a mouth-piece to Senator Saraki whose integrity he was defending in vain.

    “At this juncture, we want to call on the Kabiyesi to always stand behind his people at all times as majority of Offa citizens are becoming too apprehensive, losing confidence in his capacity and ability to lead the community to the promised land. The police should not be distracted from conducting a meticulous investigation and at the end , bring all culpable personalities directly or indirectly involved in the incident to book.”

  • The unfinished investigation of Offa Robbery

    The ugly incident that took place in Offa on April 5 will remain a big blot on the history of our state, not really because it was the worst, the most bizarre and daring robbery of its kind in recent memories, but more importantly because of the wound it has inflicted on our collective psyche, the pain in our heart and the recent revelations indicating that the dare-devil robbers were actually our neighbours. They are our friends; they are our brothers.

    Ordinarily, one would have thought, with presumebly every sense of certainty, that the rascals came from outside our state of harmony to inflict their pain on us. Not a few of us would have imagined that it was an operation carried out by men we mix with on daily basis without knowing their true identities. The truism that it is the thief from within that shows his colleagues from outside how to rape a vicinity holds eternally correct. Surely, if there is no internal connivance, the external agents of death will not be effective.

    And that is why we all were super excited with the police with their unravelling of the ugly faces behind the dastard act. Many of us were delighted that, for once, such robbery with huge loss of lives would not join a long list of unresolved cases in the hands of our police force.  We were, and we still are, looking forward to the day that the law will have its way on not only these evil souls who wasted innocent lives in Offa and threw many homes into mourning, but also those perpetrators of many other unresolved killings. Nigerians are anxiously waiting for the killers of Dele Giwa and murderers of Uncle Bola Ige.

    As is now well documented, our excitement over the police discovery was to be ruptured sooner than later by an apparently Nigerian factor; the contemptible introduction of vendetta into the investigation of a serious crime. Our police suddenly began to make some theatrical insinuations linking the Kwara State governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed and the Senate President, Bukola Saraki with the incident simply because the suspects arrested over the case claimed they were political foot soldiers for these two statesmen. What a provocative allusion!

    Merely because the police hierarchy had an axe to grind with Saraki, it began to make comical statements about the suspects and their purported confessional statements, presenting same to be gospel truth when in reality they have really diverted us from the real task of unmasking the gang behind the robbery; their real sponsors and beneficiaries. At a time we should be dissecting the mind of Adikwu, the fingered armourer and gang leader, for causality of such an unprecedented assault on the highly enterprising and industrious people of Offa, we’re dissipating energy on personal vendetta and ego boosting. Rather than investigating  how Adikwu got recruited in to the Nigeria Police Force; how many more of Adikwus do we have in other security agencies;  we have diverted to shadow chasing.

    And the diversion is apparently working. Right now, little has been heard of the dismissed policeman who was initially celebrated as the brain behind the damage. The police confirmed this when they first celebrated his arrest. The suspects also confirmed Adikwu, in the open and the absurd parade,  as their armourer. Where is Adikwu and his accomplice, Kayode Opadokun. How many of the stolen ammunition and money have been recovered? How do will prevent a reemergence of another Adikwu in our security agencies? These are the real issues and substance the police should be interested in.

    The police have told Nigerians everything the suspects allegedly said about their association with Saraki, and have concluded, even before interviewing him, that Saraki is guilty. Why has the police not gone to court if it was certain about the veracity of its insinuation, despite a court order to that effect? A court has directed the police to arraign the suspects.

    For now, nothing has been said about the dismissed policeman who was said to have driven with arms to the robbery site and distributed same to his colleagues. Where did he get the arms? How long has he been working as a criminal after his release from the initial prison terms of three years?  The police initially paraded some five vehicles as recovered from where the robbers abandoned them, where are those cars now? Who owns those cars? There have also been rumours of some serving policemen arrested over the incident but Nigerians have not heard anything about their case apparently because creating a criminal image of Saraki and Ahmed will serve more expedient personal interests than punishing the culprits behind the mass bloodshed of April 5.

    The people of Offa are mourning. Kwara people are pained. Husbands and wives have been deprived of their love ones. Children have been orphaned. Friends and neighbours have lost their love ones. Banks are closed and the economic activities of the state may never be the same. How do we console the griefing people of Offa? How do we restore their hope and confidence in our security once again?  How will the state and federal authorities synagise once again for effective policing. Really, these are the challenges that confront us as a people.

    The way forward? The police should perform its duty diligently. Many reasonable voices have pointed out that what the force is currently trumpeting as evidence will collapse easily under a judicial scrutiny.  And we have reasons to take such counsel seriously. We have seen several instances where people whom the police claimed were seriously linked to a crime or the commission of a crime would go free because the purported evidence against such are paper weight materials that cannot last in the water of cross-examination.

    The apparent political dimension the case is taking also demands that the police be more transparent and circumspect in every step of the case. One way to do this will be to produce key suspects such as the dismissed police officer and others and let Nigerians have access to their confessions through a proper court of law.  Or is it true that the man said to have provided the arms for the operation is dead? Some are also saying now that he has been severely injured during interrogation that he cannot walk or talk again. Making the investigation more transparent going forward is the only way in my opinion that can rescue the police from the stain of politics they have unnecessarily introduced into a serious crime.

     

    • Oba writes from Ilorin, Kwara State.