The
Nigeria Police has reiterated that Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has a
case to answer as regards Offa bank robbery despite the untimely death of
Michael Adikukwu, the gang leader.
In a statement by the Force Public
Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, the evidence from the five suspects now in
court are enough to prosecute the Senate President.
“The Death of Michael Adikwu ‘M’ 30Yrs (A
Dismissed Police Man and an Ex- Convict) a sectional gang leader who confessed
to have killed 22 persons including pregnant women and nine Police personnel
during Offa Bank Robbery cannot vindicate the Senate President, Senator Bukola
Saraki, the law must take its course,” the statement read.
The police stance on the reported death of
Adikwu follows Saraki’s claim that the trial was politically motivated.
Saraki had earlier on asked the Presidency to
institute a judicial inquiry into the ‘how and when’ the suspect died.
He stated further that the new disclosure by
the police has vindicated his earlier claim that the suspect had been murdered
in police custody and that the investigation was politically motivated to
implicate him, Governor Abdul-Fatai Ahmed and a few others.
Contrary to Saraki’s claim, the police
insisted that the arrest of the robbery suspects “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 a criminal
case.”
The police spokesman stated, “Michael Adikwu
‘M’ 30Yrs was not murdered but slumped and died in detention while an
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.
