Senate President Bukola Saraki has been invited for questioning by the Nigerian Police Force over the deadly Offa robbery.
At least 33 persons were killed when gunmen attacked five commercial banks in Offa, Kwara State on April 5.
Some of the casualties were policemen.
In a statement on Sunday, Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, said the Senate President was summoned to answer questions on allegations levelled against him by arrested members of the gang.
The statement reads in part: “Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki is being invited by the Nigeria Police Force to report to the Force Intelligence Response Team office at Guzape, Abuja to answer to the allegations levelled against him from the confessions of the Five (5)
“Gang Leaders, namely; Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran and some of the other Seventeen (17) suspects arrested for direct involvement and active participation in the Offa Bank Robbery and the gruesome killing of THIRTY THREE (33) innocent persons which includes (some pregnant women and nine (9) Police personnel).”
The announcement comes three weeks after the police transferred some criminal suspects on an unrelated matter to Abuja.
Saraki raised an alarm at the time, saying the police were plotting to implicate him. But the police denied the allegations, warning the former Kwara governor not to jeopardise an ongoing criminal investigation.
