Offa Dacoity: How Abba Kyari Offered Me N10m, Visa To Implicate Saraki- Ayoade Akinrinbosun

Five young men, who had for more than four years now been on trial for bank robbery in Ilorin,  Kwara state, returned to court on Wednesday.

They are facing trial in connection with the bank robbery incident recorded in Offa, Kwara state on April 5, 2018 .

 One of the defendants,  Ayoade Akinrinbosun, on Wednesday, narrated  how  the  former commander  of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Inspector General of Police led by the embattled  Abba Kyari , a Deputy Commissioner of Police,  offered him N10 million to implicate former Senate President,  Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, in the robbery case.

Akinrinbosun, who was brought  before Justice Alimat Salman of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, while taking the stand and responding to questions from the Defence Counsel, Mathias Emeribe, SAN,  said he was offered N10m to make false claim that Saraki  had asked them to carry out the bloody robbery operation.

He added that Kyari had also promised to help him get a visa to any country of his choice, but that he turned down the offer.

Kyari , he added, had asked him to agree and  claim that ‘Saraki was the one who asked us to go and rob. I told him I won’t do that. That I will rather die for what I didn’t do than to lie against an innocent man’.

‘He asked me to rethink the decision to reject  his offer. At this point he ordered officers Hassan and Mashood to return me to the cell separate one different from where others were and that they should stop torturing me’ he said.

Akinrinbosun said he was not allowed to write any statement in Ilorin except his bio data, until they were conveyed to Abuja in a tinted bus, where he was later kept in a place called Abattoir.

There, the suspect said some herdsmen were killed in his presence, adding that he was mercilessly tortured and shot in the leg in order to implicate Saraki.

Akinrinbosun maintained that Saraki has nothing to do with the robbery case.

‘We were like 15 to 20 taken to Abuja, I only know a  few of them. We were put outside and  served meal, but I couldn’t eat because my hands were paralyzed due to the torture I was made to undergo in Ilorin. They asked Kunle Ogunleye to feed me.

They separated five of us, put us in the generator house and Officer Hassan Attila ordered that they should bring  some men. They went to bring five Fulani men. They brought them and killed them all in my presence.

I was told, that was not a film. He asked me to stretch my legs and shot me in the right leg. He shot the second leg but when I tried shifting the leg, it hit my thumb’ he added.

The defendant then went ahead to show the gunshot wounds to the Court.

Akinrinbosun added that one of the robbery suspects, Micheal Adikwe, was also shot dead in his presence, a situation that got him terrified, and made him agree to implicate Saraki in a prepared statement before the press.

Justice Alimat Salman  later adjourned the case until 13th of February, 2023- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you