Offa Community Split Over Kwara High Court Ruling on 2018 Bank Robbery

Date: 2024-10-04

The recent judgment of the Kwara State High Court regarding the 2018 Offa banks robbery has left the community divided. After a six-year trial, Justice Haleema Salman last week sentenced the remaining five suspects involved in the robbery to death by hanging. The convicts—Ayoade Akinnibosun, Azeez Salahudeen, Niyi Ogundiran, Ibikunle Ogunleye, and Adeola Abraham—were found guilty of the brutal attack that claimed the lives of 32 people, including nine policemen.

The ruling, however, has sparked differing opinions within the Offa community. On Thursday, the home branch of the Offa Descendants' Union (ODU) urged the Kwara State Government to revisit the case, raising concerns about the judgment.

The Offa robbery, which occurred on April 5, 2018, shocked the nation due to the sheer scale of the violence and loss of life, and the recent court ruling has revived emotional reactions from different quarters of the community.

Addressing journalists in Offa, the chairman of the union, Chief Tajudeen Lanre Shittu, said though the community welcomed the judgement, it expressed reservations 'that many questions have not been answered'.

They called on the state government to expedite action on the execution of the judgement.

'There is the need for a holistic probing of all the factors, notions and personalities, so as to remove the public impression that the Nigeria Police investigation on the incident is incomplete and certain individuals are being covered up.

“The community is unsatisfied with how the police command handled the investigation and expressed reservations. Those who supplied the vehicle used for the robbery and all those mentioned during the course of trial should be investigated”.

But in a statement last night, some 'leaders of thought and indigenes under the aegis of Offa Koya, Offa Kowosi, dismissed the position of the home branch, adding that it was politically motivated

They accused the ODU home branch chairman of using the community's name for cheap politics.

When contacted last night, the national secretary of national branch of the ODU, Mrs Wosilat McCarthy, said Shittu cannot be speaking for the ODU.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Oba Abdulraheem     Shonga     MINILS     08001000100     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Erin-ile     Mahe Abdulkadir     CT Ayeni     Eghe Igbinehin     Patience Jonathan     Bisi Oyeleke     IF-K     TETFUND     Olateju Lukman     Millennium Development Goals     Amuda Aluko     Yoruba     Ayekale     Kwara Hotel     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Oro Grammar School     Aliyu Alhassan     Vasolar Consultoria     Oke-Kura     Isiaka Alikinla     Olayinka Are     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Lanre Issa Onilu     Balikis Jawondo     Asa     Omotosho     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     JMK Construction Company Limited     Aliyu Salihu     Kwara Volleyball Association     CCB     Maigidasanma     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Saraki     Akorede     Salami Adekunle     Ambassador Kayode Laro     VADA     Ajike People Support Centre     Assayomo     March 18     Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng     Yakubu Danladi     Kumbi Titilope     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Nigeria Customs Service     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Col. Taiwo     Sobi FM     Toyin Sanusi     Congress For National Consensus     Hajj     Otuka     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Folaranmi Aro     Bluenile Associates     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Niyi Ogundiran     School Of Nursing     Agbarere     Neo Mundo Ltd     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Amos Bajeh     Abdulkarim Adisa     REO CAKES     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Kwara State Governor     Ile Arugbo     Curfew     Modibbo Kawu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Bolakale Saka     Aliyu Sabi     Emir Of Shonga     National Pilot     Owode Market     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Government High School Adeta     Bankole Omisore     Old Oyo     Lateef Fagbemi     Baakini     Babatunde Idiagbon     Saadu Yusuf     Agor     Shade Omoniyi     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Doyin Agbamu     Asa     Ethical College     Ayobami Seriki     United Nigeria Congress Party     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     Lanre Jimoh     Bankole Omishore     Ilorin International Airport     Noah Yusuf     ASKOMP     Abioye Bello     Bola Shagaya     Okala Baba     Raymond Olaitan     Omu-aran     Bamidele Aluko     Okiki     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Kunle Suleiman     Risikat Lawal     Dogara     Sadiq Buhari     Ekiti     Ahman Patigi     Toyin Saraki     Isiaka Alikinla     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     SGBN     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     RTEAN     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Iyaloja-General     COVID     Saheed Akinwumi     Modupe Oluwole     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Olupako     University Road     Jelili Yusuf     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Adamu Atta     Shonga Farm Project     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Jimoh Bashir     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Rasaq Jimoh     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Alaiye     Bahago     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro