It was announced by the department of
State Security Service, SSS, in Lokoja, Kogi on Tuesday that a syndicate has
been arrested, including a pastor, for the alleged printing and circulation of
fake Naira notes.
Presenting the suspects to journalists,
the Director of SSS, Mike Fubara, said the syndicate, the pastor's six children
and 15 others were involved. The pastor was introduced as Godson Akubuiro who's
the General Overseer of The Mountain of Breakthrough Deliverance Ministry,
Lagos.
The SSS Director said it took the agency relent efforts to trace the source of the “worrisome fake naira currency in circulation in the state,” and undertook a covert operation to uncover those behind the act.
“This operation took the service close to four months before a breakthrough resulting in the arrest of the 16-man syndicate led by Reverend Godson O. Akubuiro,” the director said.
He said that the operation took security agents to The Breakthrough Church (also Land of Solution) located at Agric, Ikorodu, Lagos.
He said that the suspects were being investigated preparatory to their prosecution, and equipment and materials used in printing fake currencies were recovered from the suspects.
Other items recovered include large quantity of printed fake notes, cut to size blank currency notes and N1.3 million fake naira notes.
Mr. Fubara urged the public to be wary of the fake naira notes in circulation and report suspects to the service.
Mr. Akubuiro, however, told journalists that he was not using the money for himself but in supporting the less privileged and the needy in his congregation. He pleaded for leniency, saying men of God were often tempted like King David in the bible, who as a man after God’s heart fell many times but was still pardoned by God.
(NAN)
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