Offa robbery’s main suspect, reveals how he was given N10 million and a visa in exchange for implicating Saraki.

Ayoade Akinninbosun, one of the main suspects in the Offa bank robbery case, testified before the court on Wednesday about how the former Commander of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) squad, ACP Abba Kyari, offered him N10 million to implicate the former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, in the armed robbery case. The trial of the Offa bank robbery case has been resumed at

The suspect further said that Kyari offered him a visa to any nation of his choice if he chose to accuse Saraki, but he declined the offer.

The police brought five suspects—Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibikunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, and two others—to court on charges of committing bank robbery conspiracies, killing nine police officers and other people, and illegally possessing firearms.

Approximately 10 people were presumed dead in the tragedy, and other Offa residents suffered significant injuries.

However, Mr. Mathias Emeribe (SAN) Akinninbosun claimed he was promised $1,000,000 to allege that Saraki asked them to carry out the brutal robbery operation during cross-examination by the defense attorney in court.

“He said I should admit and say 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 lie against an innocent man.

“He asked me to think over his offer very well. At this point, he ordered officers Hassan and Mashood to return me to the cell. A separate one different from where others are and they should stop torturing me,” he said.

Akinninbosun claimed the he was not allowed to write any statement in Ilorin except his biodata until they were conveyed to Abuja in a tinted bus, where he was later kept in a place called an “abattoir”.

The suspect claimed that some herdsmen were slaughtered there in his company, and he also claimed that Saraki had shot him in the leg and brutally tortured him.

Saraki has no connection to the robbery case, according to Akinninbosun.

“We were like 15 to 20 taken to Abuja, I only know a few of them. We were put outside and served meals, but I couldn’t eat because my hands were paralyzed due to the torture I went through in their hands 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 they brought 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 my right leg. He shot the second leg but when I tried shifting the leg, it hit my tomb,” he said.

The defendant then proceeded to show the court the bullet wound on his legs.

According to Akinninbosun, one of the robbery suspects, Micheal Adikwu, was shot and killed in his presence, which horrified him and led him to agree to name Saraki in a prepared statement to the media.

Justice Alamat Salman, the presiding judge, instead decided to postpone the case until February 13, 2023.