The State Security Service (SSS) in Kogi in Lokoja
on Tuesday announced the arrest of a syndicate,
including a pastor, over the alleged printing and
circulation of fake naira notes.
The Director of SSS, Mr Mike Fubara, said when he
presented the suspects to newsmen that the
syndicate included 15 others, including the pastor’s
six children.
He named the pastor as Godson Akubuiro, the
General Overseer of The Mountain of Breakthrough
Deliverance Ministry, Lagos.
Fubara said SSS in its effort to trace the source of
the ”worrisome fake naira currency in circulation in
the state 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 known as Land of
Solution, located at Plot
7, Koya Estate, Igbo
Olomu, Agric, Ikorodu,
Lagos.
He said that the suspects
were being investigated
preparatory to their
prosecution.
The director said Items
recovered from the
suspects include
equipment and materials
used in printing fake
currencies.
Other items recovered
were a large quantity of
printed fake notes, cut to
size blank currency
notes and N1.3 million
fake naira notes.
Fubara urged the public
to be wary of the fake
naira notes in circulation
and report suspects to
the service.
Akubuiro, however, told
newsmen that he was not using the money for
himself but in supporting the less privileged and the
needy in his congregation.
He, however, pleaded for leniency, saying men of
God were often tempted like King David in the bible,
who as a man after God’s heart but fell many times
and was still pardoned by God. (NAN)
on Tuesday announced the arrest of a syndicate,
including a pastor, over the alleged printing and
circulation of fake naira notes.
The Director of SSS, Mr Mike Fubara, said when he
presented the suspects to newsmen that the
syndicate included 15 others, including the pastor’s
six children.
He named the pastor as Godson Akubuiro, the
General Overseer of The Mountain of Breakthrough
Deliverance Ministry, Lagos.
Fubara said SSS in its effort to trace the source of
the ”worrisome fake naira currency in circulation in
the state 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 known as Land of
Solution, located at Plot
7, Koya Estate, Igbo
Olomu, Agric, Ikorodu,
Lagos.
He said that the suspects
were being investigated
preparatory to their
prosecution.
The director said Items
recovered from the
suspects include
equipment and materials
used in printing fake
currencies.
Other items recovered
were a large quantity of
printed fake notes, cut to
size blank currency
notes and N1.3 million
fake naira notes.
Fubara urged the public
to be wary of the fake
naira notes in circulation
and report suspects to
the service.
Akubuiro, however, told
newsmen that he was not using the money for
himself but in supporting the less privileged and the
needy in his congregation.
He, however, pleaded for leniency, saying men of
God were often tempted like King David in the bible,
who as a man after God’s heart but fell many times
and was still pardoned by God. (NAN)
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