Two suspects undergoing investigation in connection with the murder
of former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice,
Bola Ige, have reportedly opened up on their involvement.
This is coming after the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim
Idris, set up Special Investigative Team, SIT, to probe the murder of
late Ige who was shot dead on December 23, 2001, by unknown gunmen in
his Ibadan, Oyo State home after his security guards took permission to
go and eat.
While the SIT is said to be working on unravelling some mystery
financiers who provided large sums of cash for the operation to kill the
ex-chief law officer, Vanguard is reporting that four days before Ige
was murdered, the prime suspects in the murder had allegedly travelled
to Abuja to collect huge sums of money with which the operation was paid
for.
Reports say two of the yet-to-be named suspects in the murder case at
the weekend confessed in their statements that the ‘Ogas’ told them to
give them some time to enable them travel to Abuja to get money to sort
out the cost of the operation.
A source told Vanguard that, “In fact, about four days to the date of
Bola Ige’s murder, one of the prime suspects traveled to Abuja for
funds. Even during the first encounter, the visit to the palace of the
Ooni of Ife, where the cap of Bola Ige was removed and thrown away, the
prime suspects had returned from Abuja with cash.”
According to the report, information about the money was revealed by
one of the suspects because the sharing formula did not favour him.
