Justice Haleemah Salman of the Kwara State High Court has sentenced five individuals to death for their involvement in the Offa bank robbery of April 2018. The court found them guilty of illegal possession of firearms, armed robbery, and culpable homicide.
These crimes, according to the judge, carry the death penalty.
The convicted suspects are Ayoade Akinnibosun, Azeez Salahudeen, Niyi Ogundiran, Ibikunle Ogunleye, and Adeola Abraham.
News Central learned that the court allowed the convicts to take the plea for mercy but eventually sentenced them all to death by hanging.
“The five of you shall be hanged on your neck until you are dead to serve as a lesson to others,” the presiding judge ruled. In April 2018, a gang of robbers stormed Offa town, Kwara State, and robbed at least five commercial banks in the ancient town.
The robbers, led by a dismissed SARS operative killed many people, including nine policemen before carting away large sums of money from the banks.