The agents of the Intelligence Response Team drove by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, have captured more suspects regarding the April 5 Offa bank thefts amid which nine policemen and 33 people were executed. Punch reporter in Abuja accumulated on Wednesday that the extra suspects were caught in Kwara, Oyo and Kogi states and were helping the police to find different accessories.
A source, who declined to give the quantity of the suspects, clarified that two AK 47 rifles were likewise recuperated from them.
The source stated, "The crisp speculates had a place with the Michael Adikwu's posse, the expelled policeman and an ex-convict. He really drove our men to the safehouse of the men where they were captured."
The crisp suspects, it was learnt, would soon be conveyed to Abuja and strutted before the media.
In the interim, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has denied any connect to the five posse pioneers that were engaged with the bank thefts.
A source clarified that the previous Kwara State Governor, in his reaction submitted to the police last Thursday, expressed that as a lawmaker, he had an extensive after and couldn't in any way, shape or form know every one of his supporters.
The police had said that their examination concerning the issue demonstrated that all the five group pioneers, to be specific: Akinnibosun, Ibikunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez and Niyi Ogundiran, have guide associations with the Senate President. The power expressed that the presumed hoodlums were at Saraki's little girl's wedding and furthermore ran with him to visit the Olofa of Offa, when he paid the customary ruler a sympathy visit in the consequence of the thefts.
It additionally clarified that one of the five posse pioneers, Abraham, was wearing the 'Aso Ebi' utilized amid the Senate President's girl's wedding, demonstrating that he was near the legislator.
A National Assembly source portrayed Saraki's announcement as develop, taking note of that he denied securing guns for the burglary suspects and discarded the Lexus SUV he gave to the group pioneer, Ayoade Akinnibosun, a.k.a AY.
"He really denied knowing the pack individuals; he demanded that as a government official, he has an extensive after and couldn't know a considerable lot of them. He additionally guarded the affirmation that he obtained arms for the posse, yet he was quiet on the SUV he provided for Akinnibosun through the Chief of Staff to Kwara State Governor, Yusuf Abdulwahab," the source expressed.
It was learnt that the letter was accepting the essential consideration, yet it couldn't be set up whether the police specialists would even now demand the Senate President's appearance before agents regardless of his composed safeguard.
The police representative, Jimoh Moshood, had demanded at a public interview that Saraki must answer to the Force Intelligence Response Team's office at Guzape, Abuja, for cross examination on his connects to the five posse pioneers.
Moshood couldn't be gone after remark as he didn't react to calls and an instant message, however police sources expressed that Saraki's cases would be confirmed by agents, taking note of that his protection had not dispossessed his association or connection to the posse pioneers.
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