Akinninbosun said that Kyari had told him that he could get a visa to any country he wanted if he accused Saraki, but he said that he turned down the offer.
On Wednesday, the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, reopened the trial in the Offa bank robbery case.
One of the main suspects, Ayoade Akinninbosun, told the court that former Intelligence Response Team (IRT) squad head Abba Kyari gave him N10 million in exchange for naming former Senate President Bukola Saraki as a suspect in the armed robbery case.
According to Akinninbosun, Kyari offered him a visa to any nation of his choice if he chose to accuse Saraki, but the offer was declined.
Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibikunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, and two others were also charged with plotting to rob banks, killing nine police officers and other people, and having guns without a license.
After what happened on April 5, 2018, about 10 people were thought to have died, and other people from Offa were hurt very badly.
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However, during cross-examination by the Defense Counsel, Mathias Emeribe (SAN), Akinninbosun claimed that he received N10 million to claim that Saraki asked them to carry out the violent robbery operation.
“He advised me to admit that Saraki was the one who gave the order for us to commit the robbery.” I promised him I wouldn’t do it. The suspect declared, “I would sooner die for what I didn’t commit than lie against an innocent man.”
He urged me to carefully consider his offer. He then gave the order for Hassan and Moshood to take me back to the jail. They should cease torturing me; I’m separate from where the others are.
Akinninbosun claimed that he was only permitted to write his biographical information at Ilorin before they were transported to Abuja in a tinted bus, where he was then kept in an area known as an “abattoir.”
Saraki, according to Akinninbosun, has nothing to do with the robbery investigation.
“We were transferred to Abuja in groups of 15 to 20, but I only know a few of them,” he continued. Meals were delivered to us outside, but I was unable to eat them since my hands were immobilized from the torment I had endured at their hands in Ilorin. To feed me, they requested Kunle Ogunleye.
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Officer Hassan Attila ordered that they bring some men after separating the five of us and placing us in the generator house. They went to bring five Fulani men. In my presence, they brought them and slaughtered them all.
“I was informed that it wasn’t a movie. He shot my right leg after asking me to extend my legs. When I attempted to move the leg after he shot the second one, it struck my grave.
The defendant then proceeded to show the court the bullet wounds on his legs.
According to Akinninbosun, one of the robbery suspects, Michael Adikwu, was shot and killed in his presence, which horrified him and led him to agree to accuse Saraki in a prepared statement to the media.
The judge in charge, Justice Alimat Salman, decided instead to put off the case until February 13, 2023.
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