The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) on Friday observed with dismay “that the suspects paraded days ago in the Offa robbery incident did not include the alleged chief armourer, a dismissed policeman called Adikwu.”

NOPRIN National Coordinator Okechukwu Nwanguma recalled in a statement that “the key suspect who was interviewed by the press said the Adikwu provided the weapons for the operation but he was not paraded.

“Similarly, Ayo Opadokun’s son, Kayode, who was arrested, was not also paraded.

There are emerging fears about the safety of these suspects who were not paraded.

NOPRIN calls on the police to ensure the safety of the Adikwu and Kayode.

“They should be produced alive to have their day in court, to corroborate or rebut the police narrative that it was Senate President Saraki who provided the weapons.”

NOPRIN called on the police “to publicly confirm the condition of these suspects.”

“The police,” according to the group, “should produce the two suspects in order to douse the suspicion that they have been eliminated to cover up and to put fear in the other suspects that they would similarly be eliminated if they don’t cooperate by sticking with the police narrative that it was Saraki who supplied them the weapons.”

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