Two yet-to-be named suspects undergoing investigation in connection with the murder of former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, have reportedly opened up on their involvement.
This is coming after the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, set up the Special Investigative Team, SIT, to probe the murder of 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 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.

The newspaper is claiming that a source said, “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.

In the cable forwarded by the then Ambassador, Howard Jeter , the investigators were described as being ill-equipped and under-trained. It also stated that the police sought the aid of the United States Government to help solve the murder. Even AIG Osomo that handled the investigation was not spared, especially in the handling of evidence.

The Ambassador too suggested that his home country should lend a helping hand in order to get Nigeria’s help in tracking down terror suspects who might be in the country.

The cable reads inter alia “there has been little progress in solving the December 23 murder of Attorney General Bola Ige.  A frank meeting with the head of the police investigation found a group of under-trained and ill-equipped investigators struggling with a complex criminal investigation.  With political and public pressure inexorably mounting, the police desperately seek United States Government’s assistance.

seunmsg:
Omisore's sins may eventually catch up with him. I will just relax and be observing as this case unfolds.

BlackSeptember:
After corruption fight let the issue of unresolved murder start while Modath stands in queue and buy kerosene for #600 go home boil indomie and shout SAI BABA