One of the prime suspects, Kunle Ogunleye. Photo: Nigerian Police
The Nigerian police on Monday stated they'd arrested two of the 4 prime suspects declared wished in reference to the Offa bank Robbery in Kwara state final month.
The improvement comes three weeks after the police circulated footage of 4 suspects who have been captured by closed-circuit digital camera of the banks that they attacked.
A press release issued by Jimoh Moshood, Force Public Relations Officer, stated two out of the 4 gang leaders and principal suspects, who have been declared wished and their footage circulated to the media and the general public on the 4th of May, 2018, had been arrested by the joint Police Investigation Team.
He stated the 2 vicious and infamous suspects confessed to be the gang-leaders of their teams.
As said by the assertion, one of many suspects is Kunle Ogunleye aka Arrow, who's a native of Kwara, was arrested on 20th May, 2018, in Oro city.
The second suspect, Micheal Adikwu, is a native of Apa LGA Benue State, a dismissed Police CPL who was arrested, tried and dismissed from the Force and charged to court docket by the Police in 2012 in Kwara for felony conspiracy and aiding the escape from lawful custody of armed theft suspects.
Moshood stated Adikwu had served three years in jail and subsequently discovered his approach out in 2015 and have become a vicious and infamous gang chief of armed theft syndicate wished for a number of armed robberies in Kwara and different States of the North Central and South West.
He also stated that Adikwu was arrested by the police intelligence response crew (IRT) in Kwara two weeks in the past, about a week after the police declared him wished and circulated his image to the general public.
“The arrest of those two gang leaders have delivered to 22 suspects arrested to date by the Nigeria Police Force in connection to the Offa Banks Robbery.
“The two suspects have confessed to the crime and admitted to the varied felony roles they performed within the Offa banks theft. They will probably be charged to court docket on completion of investigation.
“They are assisting the IRT teams in arresting more of the bank robbers as the police continue the investigation,” the assertion learn.