The Nigeria Police Force has reacted to the statement from Senate
President, Bukola Saraki, that the death of the principal suspect in the
Offa bank robbery, Michael Adikwu, has vindicated him.Saraki released a
statement on Wednesday making this claim after the Kwara state Attorney
General revealed during the trial of the suspects in the April 5th bank
robbery, that the police had sent him a letter saying that the
principal suspect in the robbery attack that claimed over 30 lives, had
died in their custody.Reacting to Saraki's comment, the police in a
statement released by its spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, said Adikwu's
death does not in anyway vindicate the Senate President, Dr. Bukola
Saraki. According to Jimoh, the remaining five suspects are the ones
that implicated Saraki and not Adikwu himself. Read the statement
belowThe attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to the
innuendo in the media on the death of a sectional gang leader Michael
Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs (A Dismissed Police Man and an Ex- Convict) who
confessed to have killed Twenty Two (22) persons including pregnant
women and Nine (9) Police personnel and carted away of Twenty Two (22)
AK 47 Rifles at the Offa Police Divisional Headquarters during Offa Bank
Robbery on the 5th April, 2018, it is therefore, imperative that the
Nigeria Police Force respond to the publication and set the record
straight.The Nigeria Police Force is conversant and mindful of contempt
of Court in commenting on cases already before the Court of competent
jurisdiction, however, the Force is constraint and compelled to respond
to the statement from Mr. Yusuf Olaniyonu, Special Adviser (Media and
Publicity) to the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki and not on the
Court processes and proceedings on the case of Offa Bank Robbery for
which Five (5) principal suspects are now standing trial in a State High
court in Ilorin, Kwara State.For avoidance of doubt, and to correct the
insinuations and wrong impressions created by the statement from Mr.
Yusuf Olaniyonu, Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to the Senate
President, Senator Bukola Saraki in the minds of members of the public
over the indictment and involvement of the Senate President, Senator
Bukola Saraki in the case of the Offa Bank Robbery of 5th April, 2018,
from the confessions of the Five (5) gang leaders namely; Ayoade
Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi
Ogundiran arrested for direct involvement and active participation in
the Offa Bank Robbery and the gruesome killing of THIRTY THREE (33)
innocent persons, the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki was
indicted by the Five (5) suspects who admitted in their confessional
statements to the Police investigators 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. 4.
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” they also admitted and confessed to have been sponsored with
firearms, money and operational vehicles.Lexus RX 300 Jeep with Reg.
KWARA, KWA 143 RM with inscription SARAKI on a sticker attached to the
vehicle. Mercedes Benz Compressor Reg. LAGOS, LT 496 KJA, these two (2)
Vehicles were used for the Offa Bank Robbery by the Five (5) gang
Leaders. The first vehicle was later registered after the Offa Bank
Robbery to divert attention while the suspects were in detention. 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 in the whole matter.It was also
discovered during 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. Further investigation into the matter revealed 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 a picture of one of the
five (5) gang leaders when paraded by the Police 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 in Abuja.Consequent on all the above, a
thorough and discreet investigation was concluded by the Police into
the matter and all the Five (5) gang leaders namely; Ayoade Akinnibosun,
Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran
arrested for direct involvement and active participation in the Offa
Bank Robbery that indicted and implicated Senator Bukola Saraki, Senate
President Federal Republic of Nigeria in the Offa Bank Robbery are alive
and now in Court. Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs (A Dismissed Police Man and
an Ex- Convict) who confessed to have killed Twenty Two (22) persons
including pregnant women and Nine (9) Police personnel and carted away
of Twenty Two (22) AK 47 Rifles at the Offa Police Divisional
Headquarters during Offa Bank Robbery on the 5th April, 2018 was among
the Three (3) gang leaders captured on CCTV footage and later arrested.
Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs was not paraded along with the Five (5) gang
leaders now standing trial because he was taken out to arrest other
members of the gang and recover the Twenty Two (22) AK 47 Rifles carted
away during the Offa Bank Robbery.Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs was not
murdered but slummed and died in detention while investigation into the
Offa Bank Robbery was ongoing. It is also important for the public to
know that the deceased Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs was not among the Five
(5) gang leaders that indicted and implicated the senate President,
Senator Bukola Saraki, therefore, his death cannot in anyway vindicate
Senator Bukola Saraki. There is a post-mortem examination result in
respect of the death of Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs.The indictment of the
Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki from the confessions of the Five
(5) gang leaders namely; Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola
Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran arrested for direct
involvement and active participation in the Offa Bank Robbery was not
politically motivated as alleged by Mr. Yusuf Olaniyonu, Special Adviser
(Media and Publicity) to the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki to
the media, but purely criminal case.It should be of serious concern to
all, that human life is sacrosanct and where investigation has been
concluded and suspects arraigned in Court, judicial process must be
exhausted and not hindered for the law to take its course in ensuring
justice for the families of more than Thirty Three (33) innocent persons
including pregnant women that were gruesomely murdered in cold blood by
Michael Adikwu and the Five (5) gang leaders Ayoade Akinnibosun,
Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran
arrested, investigated and currently standing trial for direct
involvement and active participation in the Offa Bank Robbery, than for
any individual(s) or any group to attempt futile efforts and desperate
distractions to pervert the end of justice is most unfair to the
families of the deceased, the State and the society at large. Police replies Saraki, says death of Offa Bank robbery principal suspect does not vindicate him
The Nigeria Police Force has reacted to the statement from Senate
President, Bukola Saraki, that the death of the principal suspect in the
Offa bank robbery, Michael Adikwu, has vindicated him.Saraki released a
statement on Wednesday making this claim after the Kwara state Attorney
General revealed during the trial of the suspects in the April 5th bank
robbery, that the police had sent him a letter saying that the
principal suspect in the robbery attack that claimed over 30 lives, had
died in their custody.Reacting to Saraki's comment, the police in a
statement released by its spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, said Adikwu's
death does not in anyway vindicate the Senate President, Dr. Bukola
Saraki. According to Jimoh, the remaining five suspects are the ones
that implicated Saraki and not Adikwu himself. Read the statement
belowThe attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to the
innuendo in the media on the death of a sectional gang leader Michael
Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs (A Dismissed Police Man and an Ex- Convict) who
confessed to have killed Twenty Two (22) persons including pregnant
women and Nine (9) Police personnel and carted away of Twenty Two (22)
AK 47 Rifles at the Offa Police Divisional Headquarters during Offa Bank
Robbery on the 5th April, 2018, it is therefore, imperative that the
Nigeria Police Force respond to the publication and set the record
straight.The Nigeria Police Force is conversant and mindful of contempt
of Court in commenting on cases already before the Court of competent
jurisdiction, however, the Force is constraint and compelled to respond
to the statement from Mr. Yusuf Olaniyonu, Special Adviser (Media and
Publicity) to the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki and not on the
Court processes and proceedings on the case of Offa Bank Robbery for
which Five (5) principal suspects are now standing trial in a State High
court in Ilorin, Kwara State.For avoidance of doubt, and to correct the
insinuations and wrong impressions created by the statement from Mr.
Yusuf Olaniyonu, Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to the Senate
President, Senator Bukola Saraki in the minds of members of the public
over the indictment and involvement of the Senate President, Senator
Bukola Saraki in the case of the Offa Bank Robbery of 5th April, 2018,
from the confessions of the Five (5) gang leaders namely; Ayoade
Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi
Ogundiran arrested for direct involvement and active participation in
the Offa Bank Robbery and the gruesome killing of THIRTY THREE (33)
innocent persons, the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki was
indicted by the Five (5) suspects who admitted in their confessional
statements to the Police investigators 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. 4.
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” they also admitted and confessed to have been sponsored with
firearms, money and operational vehicles.Lexus RX 300 Jeep with Reg.
KWARA, KWA 143 RM with inscription SARAKI on a sticker attached to the
vehicle. Mercedes Benz Compressor Reg. LAGOS, LT 496 KJA, these two (2)
Vehicles were used for the Offa Bank Robbery by the Five (5) gang
Leaders. The first vehicle was later registered after the Offa Bank
Robbery to divert attention while the suspects were in detention. 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 in the whole matter.It was also
discovered during 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. Further investigation into the matter revealed 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 a picture of one of the
five (5) gang leaders when paraded by the Police 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 in Abuja.Consequent on all the above, a
thorough and discreet investigation was concluded by the Police into
the matter and all the Five (5) gang leaders namely; Ayoade Akinnibosun,
Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran
arrested for direct involvement and active participation in the Offa
Bank Robbery that indicted and implicated Senator Bukola Saraki, Senate
President Federal Republic of Nigeria in the Offa Bank Robbery are alive
and now in Court. Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs (A Dismissed Police Man and
an Ex- Convict) who confessed to have killed Twenty Two (22) persons
including pregnant women and Nine (9) Police personnel and carted away
of Twenty Two (22) AK 47 Rifles at the Offa Police Divisional
Headquarters during Offa Bank Robbery on the 5th April, 2018 was among
the Three (3) gang leaders captured on CCTV footage and later arrested.
Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs was not paraded along with the Five (5) gang
leaders now standing trial because he was taken out to arrest other
members of the gang and recover the Twenty Two (22) AK 47 Rifles carted
away during the Offa Bank Robbery.Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs was not
murdered but slummed and died in detention while investigation into the
Offa Bank Robbery was ongoing. It is also important for the public to
know that the deceased Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs was not among the Five
(5) gang leaders that indicted and implicated the senate President,
Senator Bukola Saraki, therefore, his death cannot in anyway vindicate
Senator Bukola Saraki. There is a post-mortem examination result in
respect of the death of Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs.The indictment of the
Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki from the confessions of the Five
(5) gang leaders namely; Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola
Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran arrested for direct
involvement and active participation in the Offa Bank Robbery was not
politically motivated as alleged by Mr. Yusuf Olaniyonu, Special Adviser
(Media and Publicity) to the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki to
the media, but purely criminal case.It should be of serious concern to
all, that human life is sacrosanct and where investigation has been
concluded and suspects arraigned in Court, judicial process must be
exhausted and not hindered for the law to take its course in ensuring
justice for the families of more than Thirty Three (33) innocent persons
including pregnant women that were gruesomely murdered in cold blood by
Michael Adikwu and the Five (5) gang leaders Ayoade Akinnibosun,
Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran
arrested, investigated and currently standing trial for direct
involvement and active participation in the Offa Bank Robbery, than for
any individual(s) or any group to attempt futile efforts and desperate
distractions to pervert the end of justice is most unfair to the
families of the deceased, the State and the society at large. 
