Nemesis has caught up with a youth leader of the Living Faith Church
in Okene, Kogi State, who professed to be a born-again Christian but was
the leader of a 10-man robbery gang. The suspect (name withheld) who
was described as very popular in the area, allegedly led his gang to
break into the office of the pastor of the church in the night and
carted away over N315,000 belonging to the church.
Ironically, he
was one of the early callers to the church the next morning, and joined
in raining curses on the perpetrators of the crime. Parading the
suspects yesterday, at the police headquarters in Lokoja, the state
Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Musa Katsina, described the arrested
suspects as a sledgehammer robbery gang. He said that the youth leader,
“who led the robbery operation was seen the following morning, raining
curses on the robbers and even invoking Holy Ghost fire on them, and
now, the Holy Ghost fire has caught up with him.”
He said that the
gang made up of bricklayers and block moulders specialize in breaking
into shops and private residences, carting away goods and money. The
Commissioner stated that the suspects were armed with guns and other
dangerous weapons during their operations He said that they normally
disguise as casual labourers going around residences and shops in search
of potential victims. The police boss said the mother of the gang
leader is a chorister in the same church.
Answering reporters’
questions, the arrested youth leader confessed that he played the
born-again youth leader in the day, and armed robber at night.
He
confessed that he has led 27 robberies within Okene and Lokoja as well
as Adavi local government areas. The Assistant Pastor of the church,
Pastor Aloysius Momoh, who expressed surprise at the youth leader’s
involvement in the crime, said that the church went into seven-day
prayer and fasting shortly after the church was robbed, and God warned
those behind the dastardly act to repent between May and December, last
year, or be disgraced One of the victims, Paul Ikunagus, said over N2
million cash was stolen from his shop while one of them said he lost
N5.8 million to the robbers who invaded his shop last December.
All
the victims who spoke to Sunday Sun commended the police in the state
under the leadership of Musa Katsina for bringing the elusive gang
members to book. Items recovered from the suspects included one locally
made gun, a jerk knife, two big hammers, handsets and clothes.
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