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.
Luck ran out of his gang on their in another operation and they were apprehended by the police . The Lokoja state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Musa Katsina, 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 police boss also stated that the mother of the gang leader is a chorister in the same church.
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.
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