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Apostle Suleman Was Meant To Be Assassinated In The Attack – Suspect Reveals

Apostle Suleman Was Meant To Be Assassinated In The Attack – Suspect Reveals

Faith Joseph by Faith Joseph
January 11, 2024
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The police force in Abuja, on Thursday, presented 20 suspects to the media.

They were arrested for a range of crimes including conspiracy, attempted murder, murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and possession of illegal drugs.

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Among the suspects was a 32-year-old man, Yusuf Isah, linked to a 2022 assault on the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleman.

Isah admitted to journalists that the assault on the religious leader was meant to be an assassination.

The violent incident occurred on the Benin-Auchi Road in Edo State when gunmen ambushed the cleric’s convoy, resulting in the death of six individuals, including three police officers.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi provided more details about the case.

He noted that the Intelligence Rapid Team apprehended Isah after thorough investigations.

Isah confessed that he and his accomplices followed the pastor to the location of the attack with five AK-47 rifles.

He said, “The attack on him (Suleman) was to assassinate him. I was not part of the discussion; Ilayasu and Labisca were the ones involved in the discussion.

“We attacked him with five AK 47 rifles. Labisca trailed him from where he was coming from to the point where we attacked him.”

The police spokesman confirmed that five AK 47 riffles, two K2 rifles and 180 live ammunition were recovered from the suspect.

Adejobi said, “Following an intensive investigation into the fatal attack on the convoy of Apostle Johnson Suleman along Benin-Auchi Road wherein six people, including three police personnel, were gruesomely murdered, operatives of FIB-IRT on the trail of the assailants apprehended one Yusuf Isah, a native of Okene, Kogi State and a plumber, at Agbaraoluwa Phase 2 Ijoka, Akure, Ondo State and recovered five AK 47 rifles, two K2 assault rifles, 180 live ammunition and four suspected IEDs found in his apartment.”

The FPRO said some of the rifles found with the suspect were snatched from the three policemen killed during the attack.

He said the suspect confessed that the gang abducted an oil magnate and a businessman for whom N70m and N2m were respectively paid for their freedom.

Adejobi added, “The suspect confessed that he joined the vicious gang in 2021 after he was freed from Olokuta Correctional Centre where he was on remand since 2019 for alleged involvement in armed robbery.

“The group specialises in kidnapping for ransom and has carried out about four kidnapping operations between 2021 and 2023, including the attack on the convoy of the cleric before the gang was eventually busted by the police.

“The suspect confessed that the gang was responsible for the kidnap of a popular oil dealer at Jetu, Auchi in 2022, where they obtained a ransom of about N70m before his release. The gang equally carried out the kidnapping of a businessman along the Benin-Agbor Expressway in 2022 and collected N20m as ransom from the victim’s family.”

He, however, said two members of the seven-man gang were gunned down in separate encounters with the police, adding that efforts are ongoing to apprehend other suspects who are still at large.

Also paraded were Emu Chidiebere, 34, Samuel Balogun, 22, Babatunde Femi, 30, and Nneka Opara, 32, who were arrested for kidnapping.

Chidiebere, the principal suspect, was said to have lured a Swiss national to Nigeria, posing as an agent who facilitated Gold transactions.

Adejobi added, “The suspects held the victim hostage in the apartment from May 30, 2023, to June 2, 2023.

“The suspects took pictures of the victim and forwarded the pictures and threatening messages to the girlfriend of the victim in Zurich, who eventually sent them $2000 via Western Union on June 1, 2023. Upon receipt of the report, operatives of FIB-IRT were deployed on the case and they successfully apprehended the suspects.”

He added that the force, in the last two months, arrested 548 armed robbery suspects, 242 kidnapping suspects, 365 murder/homicide suspects and about 237 suspects for rape/defilement.

According to Adejobi, 113 victims of kidnapping were rescued during the period.

He noted that about 306 firearms and 3,944 ammunition were recovered across the country.

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