Offa robbery: Lexus Jeep used by gang leader taken to government house Ilorin, number plate removed- Police alleges
The has disclosed how a Lexus jeep GX-300 used by the leader of the Offa bank robbery was taken to government house, Ilorin and number plate changed.
Speaking with newsmen the spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Jimoh Moshood, who paraded the suspects, named the leaders as: Ayoade Akinnibosun
Moshood said in the course of investigation, a Lexus jeep GX-300 (Ash Colour) with a sticker plate number with inscription “SARAKI” “Kwara, State of Harmony” used by the gang leader, was taken to Government House, Ilorin on 16th May, 2018.
He said the number was removed and replaced with number (Reg. No. Kwara, KMA 143 RM) registered in the name of Ayoade Akinnibosun.
He said the exhibit vehicle was recovered from the premises of the Min. of Environmental and Forestry in Ilorin.
He added that the sticker plate number removed from the vehicle was recovered from one Adeola Omiyale who drove it to Government House immediately after the bank robbery.
The police named the five gang leaders as: Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez and Niyi Ogundiran, saying all of them confessed to killing two persons each.
There are also 17 other suspects. They include: Michael Adikwu (killed 22 persons), Kabiru Afolabi, Omoseni Kassim, Kayode Opadokun, Kazeem Abdulrasheed, Azeez Abdullahi, Adewale Popoola, Adetoyese Muftau, Alexander Reuben and Richard Buba Terry.
Others are: Peter Jasper Kuunfa, Ikechukwu Ebuka Nnaji, Moses Godwin, Adeola Omiyale, Femi Idowu, Alabi Olalekan PA Political to Executive Governor, Kwara State and Yusuf Abdulwahab Chief of Staff to Executive Governor, Kwara State.
He said the arrests were made possible after the arrest of two principal suspects Kunle Ogunleye and Michael Adikwu, an ex-convict whose pictures were circulated through the media.
Moshood said millions of naira from the banks and 21 AK47 rifles belonging to the police in the armoury of the Divisional Headquarters, Offa were admitted to have been carted away by the gang leaders during the robbery.
He said the five gang leaders confessed that they are political thugs under the name Youth Liberation Movement aka “Good Boys”.
