The
Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command, has
arrested six members of a robbery gang that allegedly attacked a church,
Christ Authority and Power Evangelical Ministry, in the Ijanikin area
of the state.
Two
double-barreled locally-made pistols, 50 live cartridges, military
camouflage and 10 mobile phones were recovered from the suspects.
identified as Adewale Osaja, 21; Bala Yahaya, 28; Hassan Ado, 19; Armed
Boladale, 20; Abiodun Olarewaju, 27, and Abbey Edward, 45.
According
to report, the robbers had stolen the church’s offering and also robbed
members of the congregation of their Ipads, phones, jewellery and other
valuables. The robbery was successful but one of the robbers, Ado had
forgotten his gun in the church and went back to retrieve it the next
day and that's when he was arrested by residents of the area.
According
to Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, Ado was arrested and
transferred to SARS after which he named other members of his gang.
After his confession, the other members of the gang were nabbed.
The suspects, most of whom confessed to be members of the Eiye Confraternity, said they took to robbery recently.
One
of the supects, Olanrewaju, who claimed to be a member of the Odua
People’s Congress, said he supplied the gang with ammunition, but
maintained that he never followed them on any robbery operation.source: Naij
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