Operatives of the Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested four persons including a pastor and a medical practitioner for their alleged membership of a deadly armed robbery gang who attacked the Ayobo branch of Access Bank, killing three policemen, last November.
The suspects who were paraded at the command’s headquarters, Ikeja, were identified as Jonathan Nsirim, Tajudeen Dosunmu, Isaiah Willie and Tairu Kareem.
AK-47 rifles, two K-2 rifles, one pump action and 17 AK-47 magazines, fully loaded, were recovered at one of the gang’s hideouts in Egbeda area of Lagos.
It was learnt that Sp Abba Kyari, officer in charge of SARS who coordinated the arrests and the subsequent recoveries of the arms acted on an intelligence report he got about a secret house that members of the gang were using which allegedly belongs to one of the robbers identified as Saviour Confidence, who was gunned down during an operation, at 49, Alimosho Road, Egbeda area.
Giving their confessions, the medical doctor, Dosunmu, 65 said he joined the gang because he needed money to renew his operating licence.
"I am the owner of Boluwatife Kola Hospital, located at Igando, behind the police station and in 2012, my operating licence got expired and I had no money to renew it and I closed it down."
The pastor, Isaiah Willie said it was Confidence who introduced him to the gang and his job was to drive the instruments to the bank and wait by the car. He said he is a Pastor at Happy People Bible Church.
Another member of the gang, Tairu Kareem, a panel beater said, "I joined the gang because I lost my job. I am married with three children and I reside at Wilmer Crescent, Olodi-Apapa."
Source: Vanguard
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