The Oyo State Police
Command has arrested two members of a Methodist Church Cathedral in Ibadan for
planning to rob the church with intent to cart away N1.5m.
Public Relations Officer of the command,
Adekunle Ajisebutu, said a worker in the church, Ogundijo Abiola (43), and the
church drummer, Alabi Olukunle (25) had invited a gang of armed robbers to
invade the church and cart away the money with the plan to share the loot with
the robbers. They were arrested during the Sunday service.
He said, “The anti-robbery squad of the command
foiled an armed robbery attack on the church in Ibadan on November 6, 2016 and
arrested two members of the church for their involvement in the crime.
“The robbery was at its
final planning stage when they were arrested. The planned robbery was conceived
by the two suspects, who invited the gang to rob the church of the large sum of
money.”
Abiola told Punch’s correspondent that he
contacted the robbers on Saturday and told them that there was enough money to
steal in the church coffers, adding that he also told them that the money would
be shared equally.
In his confessional statement, Olukunle said
Abiola contacted him and told him that he needed people who could handle the
church priest.
“He said he wanted to beat the priest and then
rob the church of N1.5m. I know a thug so I contacted him and he agreed to do
it. But Abiola called me again to halt the operation and I did. But on Sunday,
police came to the church and arrested us. I am only a drummer in the church.”
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