Offa Robbery Attack: Accused Alleged Police Obtained Confessional Statements Under Duress - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
March 16, 2019
The three men charged in the April5, 2018 bank robbery in Offa, on Friday told a High Court in Ilorin, Kwara thatthe confessional statements admitting to the crime were obtained under duresswhile in police custody.
The police charged AyoadeAkinnibosun, Ibikunle Ogunleye and Adeola Abraham with criminal conspiracy torob the banks, robbery of the banks, conspiracy to murder; murder of ninepolicemen and other innocent citizens, and illegal possession of firearms.
Testiying in while being led inevidence in the trial-within-trial by their counsel, Mathias Emeribe,Akinnibosun, said he was tortured and threatened by the police to make theconfessional statements.
Akinnibosun alleged that DeputyCommissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, also asked him and the other accusedpersons to implicate Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
Akinnibosun, Ogunleye and Ibrahimgave graphic details of their experience allegedly in police custody in Abuja.