Nigeria: Police arrest pastor, 3 others for bank robbery

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Published (Updated) on Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Nigeria police on Thursday paraded a pastor and three other suspected armed robbers for robbing a bank at Ayobo in Lagos on November 16, 2013, killing three police officers attached to the Ayobo Divisional Police Office, carting away their rifles.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Manko, who paraded the bandits, said the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had an encounter with the gang on November 20, 2013 at Ilasamaja, where two members of the gang were “fatally wounded and arms were recovered.

The commissioner gave the names of the suspects as Jonathan Nsirim, an upcoming musician; Tajudeen Dosunmu, an alleged fake medical doctor; Isaiah Willie, a pastor and one Tairu Kazeem , a welder.

Items displayed were 12 AK-47 rifles, two K2 rifles, 30 fully loaded AK-47 magazines, one pump action gun, Walkie-Talkie, one hammer, one iron cutter, eight gas cylinders and one ATM card destroyed by the suspects during operation.

According to the police boss , the gang also confessed to have been involved in First Bank Idimu ATM robbery, Zenith Bank Malu Road, Ajegunle, robbery, Diamond Bank at Pen Cinema among others in Lagos state.
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