EXPOSED: SSS Arrests Pastor Akubuiro and His Children Over Fake Currency Production

The State Security Service, SSS, on Tuesday announced the arrest of a syndicate, including a pastor, over the alleged printing and circulation of fake Naira notes in the country.

The Kogi State Director of SSS, Mr. Mike Fubara, said when he presented the suspects to newsmen that the syndicate of about 16 members, included the pastor’s six children.

Unfortunately, he named the pastor as Godson Akubuiro, the General Overseer of The Mountain of Breakthrough Deliverance Ministry, a Lagos-based church.

The PUNCH had reported on Tuesday that a 27-member gang of gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, had abducted Pastor Akubuiro and his six children in their home in Ikorodu, Lagos, last week Friday.

Mike 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".

He added, “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 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 items recovered from them included equipment and materials used in printing fake currencies.

Pastor Akubuiro, his children and other members of his gang will be charged to court