Airport Robbery: General Overseer, Six Others Arrested

Murtala Mohammed Int'l Airport

Filo: The Lagos State Police Command has arrested the gang of robbers, who attacked the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja on March 13, killing two policemen and injuring several others.

The robbers were also said to be the same bandits, who attacked a Bureau De Change last year at the same airport, carting away dollars valued at over N600 million.

Among the suspects in police custody is one Pastor Ibikunle Olanrewaju John, the General Overseer of The Way of Joy’ church. The church is located in the Ikotun-Egbe area of Lagos State.

Kiyo: I like the name of the church, the way of joy for the GO is the way of robbery. But thumbs up to our Police men, so how much did they recover?

Filo: The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko, said the robbery suspects were caught after detectives attached to the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS), recovered the corpse of one of the slain robbers, identified as Teslim Okunola, aka Esho, and discovered some items on him.

Items recovered from the suspects were five AK47 rifles, four dynamites, two locally made pistols, 64 AK47 magazines, all loaded with 30 rounds each, totalling 1,920 live ammunitions.

Kiyo: You mean no cash was recovered!  This is an Incomplete Mission.


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