Nigerian Police Force have paraded one of the suspects involved in the attack on Apostle Suleman’s convoy which left multiple people dead in October, 2022.
The police paraded a 34-year-old man, identified as Yusuf Isah, on Thursday alongside 19 other culprits following a failed assassination attempt on the apostle last year.
It would be recalled that armed men opened fire on the cleric’s convoy on the 21st of October 2022, around Auchi, Edo State, killing 7 people.
CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi who spoke to the press while parading the suspect disclosed that Isah had been the first to open fire on the clergyman’s convoy.
He said: “Operatives of the FIB on the trail of the assailants apprehended this suspect, Yusuf Isah, a native of Okene, Kogi State, at Agabara Oluwatobi Phase 2, a plumber, and recovered five AK-47, 2 K2 Assault rifles, 180 Live Ammunition, and four suspected IEDs found in his apartment.
“Investigation revealed that the suspect was part of the seven-man gang responsible for the attack on the convoy of the Apostle and some of the rifles found in his possession were riffles snatched from the three police officers that were killed during the October 21, 2022 attack.”
It was also reported by the police that Isah had admitted to joining the gang in 2021 after being freed from Olokuta Correctional Service, where he had been after being apprehended for armed robbery.
On his part, the suspect admitted and confessed that the mission had been one with the intent of assassinating the cleric.
He said: “Actually, it was a case of assassination, but I don’t have the details of the operation. It was Ilaisu and Nabista that have the full information. I am the first person that pulled fire on the convoy of Apostle Suleiman.”
