Cross-border banditry: AK47 recovered from Pastor

The Police Operatives attached to the Zonal Intervention Squad of the Zone 2 Command in Lagos State have arrested a pastor and one other for cross-border banditry.
They were arrested on August 11 at Madoga, a border town between Nigeria and Benin Republic.
The Commander of the Zonal Intervention Squad was said to have received a piece of information on the criminal activities of some armed robbers who have been terrorizing innocent Nigerians in Lagos and Ogun States and operating along Nigeria, Republic of Benin and Togo route.
They were coming into Nigeria to rob a businessman but the Commander deployed his men and arrested Razak Raheem, popularly known as Aro, 48, and Joseph Olude, 45, who is a pastor of Elehim Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Ihumbe in Ogun State.
Items recovered from them included one AK47 rifle loaded with 30 rounds of ammunition and 16 extra life AK47 ammunition, one locally made gun with life cartridges, one long barrel gun loaded with live cartridge and three loaded Dane guns.
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command, Abdulmajid Ali, has directed that the fleeing members of the armed robbery gang be apprehended without delay.
Ali also directed that the Commander Zonal Intervention Squad expedites action on the investigation and charge the suspects to court as soon as possible.
The police boss assured the general public under the zonal command that “officers and men of the command have been given teeth to bite and they will bite hard any criminal caught in the act or planning to perpetrate any evil act within the zonal command”.