Four of the five suspects who are on trial for the April 5, 2018 Offa bank robbery in the Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State on Wednesday told a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin how they killed no fewer than 11 persons during the incident.
The suspects, Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibikunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Azeez Salawu and Niyi Ogundiran, were all present in court during the trial.
At the resumed hearing of the case, recommend for the prosecution, Mr. Rotimi Jacob, SAN, referred to as the seventh witness, Inspector John Nwoke, who is the cinematographer attached to the Force Public Relations Unit, Abuja.
Nwoke then presented a DVD video to the open court that contained the confessional statements of the accused folks.
All however one of the accused individuals, Ayoade Akinnibosun, said that they shot lifeless 11 individuals, who were hauling stones and different missiles at them at some point of the theft incident.
Akinnibosun narrated how a dismissed police officer, Michael Adikwu (now late), bought the robbery idea to him, adding that he in flip conscripted his other 4 accomplices into the deal.
Akinnibosun, who claimed to be the ring leader within the video, discovered that he owned the 2 automobiles used for the bloody operation.
He stated that one of the cars, Lexus Sport Utility Vehicle become given to him as an empowerment supply by way of the then governor of the nation, Abdulfatah Ahmed, as he was the chief of the Political Liberation Movement in Kwara South.
He stated, “I got here into contact with the dismissed policeman (Adikwu) via a sales collection team of workers. After the assembly with Adikwu, I relayed to Ibikunle Ogunleye who additionally relayed equal to Adeola Abraham in any other case known as Adex. Azeez Salawu and Niyi Ogundiran are both mechanics with the aid of career.
“On the fateful day of April fifth, 2018, the five people moved from Oro, Irepodun Local Government Area of the kingdom to Ajase-Ipo, in which we parked the SUV below a tree, and all of us drove in the Mercedes Benz to Offa. At Offa, we parked in the front of the Total filling station, wherein late Adikwu changed into watching for us in a black Audi vehicle.
“There turned into additionally a Nissan Premera automobile parked in the front folks on the Total filling station where a few different humans that came with Adikwu have been waiting. Shortly, thereafter, Adikwu handed over a sack to me containing five AK-47 rifles.
“As the commander of my gang, I allotted the guns and directed each member to take his function. I placed myself at the Roundabout leading to Igosun metropolis from Offa.
“After the robbery, Adikwu did not give us a dime. He best promised to call me whilst it is time to percentage the loot. Then we all hurriedly left the network. On getting to Ijagbo, Oyun Local Government Area, our automobile stretched to a halt looking ahead to Adikwu, who came and gathered the five AK-47 rifles from me.”
Also speakme, Ibikunle Ogunleye said he changed into positioned at the First Bank premises inside the town before Adikwu dragged him to come along to the Offa Police Station.
He discovered that he shot lifeless two men and women, who had been trying to escape at the gate of the police station, including that on the police station, Adikwu and his gangs fired many pictures at the station, killing rankings of policemen within the process.
In their very own memories, Adeola Abraham, Azeez Salawu and Niyi Ogundiran stated that they'd no longer dealt with rifles previous to the robbery.
However, every of Abraham, Salawu and Ogundiran confessed to have shot lifeless 5, and two humans respectively to save you being stoned to loss of life via contributors of the general public.
The presiding decide, Justice Haleemah Salman, adjourned the case until March 15 and sixteen for the continuation of trial.
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