Offa Robbery: Police unmask 12 suspects, recover phones, iPads, other items

The police in Kwara State have revealed the identities of 12 suspects arrested for their alleged connection to the last Thursday’s robbery incident in Offa.

Armed robbers stormed the community on April 5, killing 17 people and raiding five banks. Eight police officers at Owode Division, Offa, were also killed in the attack, and the robbers made away with police arms and ammunition.

The police arrested seven suspects within the first two days of the attack, and made more arrests on later dates.

The police had earlier withheld the names of the first batch of arrested suspects, saying doing so could jeopardise efforts to arrest the remaining members of the gang or/and threaten the entire investigation into the deadly robbery that had gripped the nation for the past one week.

President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders have condemned the attack and called on the police to take immediate action to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Jimoh Moshood, the police spokesperson at Force Headquarters, released details of the arrests, including recovered exhibits, in a statement on Friday evening.

The suspects are:

1. i) Adegoke Shogo, 29 yrs – arrested in Offa
2. ii) Kayode Opadokun, 35 yrs – arrested in Offa

iii) Kazeem Abdulrasheed, 36 yrs – arrested in Offa

1. iv) Azeez Abdullahi, 27 yrs – arrested in Offa
2. v) Alexander Reuben, 39 yrs – arrested on April 11, in Lagos
3. vi) Jimoh Isa, 28 yrs – arrested on April 11, in Lagos

vii) Azeez Salawudeen, 20 yrs – arrested in Offa, victim’s phone and SIM cards recovered from him

viii) Adewale Popoola, 22 yrs – arrested in Offa, victim’s phone and SIM cards recovered from him

1. ix) Adetoyese Muftau, 23 yrs – arrested in Ibadan, Oyo State
2. x) Aminu Ibrahim, 18 yrs – arrested in Ilorin
3. xi) Richard Buba Terry, 23 yrs – arrested in Ilorin

xii) Peter Jaba Kuunfa, 25 yrs – arrested in Ilorin

Exhibits recovered from the suspects:

From the last there suspects a Beretta pistol and 14 rounds of live ammunitions were recovered.

1. Two Beretta Pistols
2. Twenty rounds of live ammunition

iii. Four cell phones and SIM cards belonging to victims, some of whom were killed during the attack.