The House of Representatives, on Thursday, unanimously agreed to begin an investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of the principal suspect in the bank robbery in Offa, Kwara State, Michael Adikwu.
Adikwu, a dismissed police constable who was said to have confessed to being the mastermind of the bloody robbery that left scores of people dead in the operation which involved five commercial banks on April 5, 2018, died on Wednesday.
The House expressed concern that it took the police so long to make the disclosure about the death of the principal suspect after denying its veracity as was reported in the media.
It said there are inconsistencies in the various statements by the police which points to a possible cover-up of this extra-judicial killing with the aim of tarnishing the image of some innocent individuals for political purposes,” he said.
The House Committees on Police Affairs, Human Rights and Justice was charged to uncover the issues and questions as to when the suspect died, how he died, why the police denied the facts of his death, at what point the police leadership discovered the death of the suspect and why the police are covering up the facts.
