News making the rounds on social media have it that a senior pastor of the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) Iberekodo, Abeokuta, Ogun state has been arrested for being the leader of a kidnapping ring in the state. The arrested minister, Evangelist Adelabi Abayomi was a high ranking minister of the Celestial Church and carried out his organised crimes in company of his gang. The five other members of this gang were also reported to be ministers of the gospel spread across various branches of the Celestial Church of Christ in Ogun state.
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Stories have it that the arrested pastor and members of his syndicate were responsible for many of the highway crimes perpetrated on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. The kidnapping syndicate hijacked people's cars and held them hostage in exchange for ransom after contacting victims' relatives. They also relieved victims' of the entire savings via the many POS machines the carried around during their nefarious operations. The evangelist also identified affluent members of his parish to his gang in order for them to be kidnapped and ransomed. The gang was apprehended in Abeokuta in the middle of a robbery and kidnapping operation. One of the five members of the notorious gang escaped arrest.
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