Offa robbery: We’re making efforts to recover stolen cash, guns used in attack – Police

The Nigeria Police Force has said that it is making strident efforts aimed at recovering the huge cash stolen from six banks by armed robbers who attacked Offa in Kwara State on April 5 this year.

The police said that although it swiftly apprehended the six ring leaders of the deadly attack, which claimed 33 lives, including nine policemen, the stolen cash was yet to be recovered.

Similarly, the police has promised to retrieve the 21 AK-47 guns which the robbers snatched from slain policemen during the robbery and other weapons used by the felons.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, an Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police, made the clarifications while responding to an exclusive investigative story published by Saturday Vanguard.

Moshood said that the statement of the Offa robbery mastermind, Michael Adikwu, was included in the case file it submitted to the Federal Ministry of Justice contrary to the claim that it was missing.

Vanguard, December 9, 2018

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