Everyone around was startled when they
recounted their escapades before their
reign in the underworld was forced to a
halt by the police.
Twenty-four-year-old Moses Adelawo,
son of a landlord in Ajao Estate, Lagos;
Felix Sunday, alias K-Money, and Abbey
Yinusa, who claimed that the former
lured him into molesting girls, are
members of a dreaded gang. So is Ike
Leke, 26, aka Bombom. They were
arrested on Wednesday.
Their gang, led by Abiodun Ogunjobi,
aka Godogodo, terrorised the Southwest
before it was smashed last Sunday by the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),
Lagos State Police Command.
Leke, 26, told The Nation on Wednesday
that he enjoyed molesting daughters of
their victims. His reason: Some ladies
who advised him to take to armed
robbery abandoned him when police
declared him wanted after an operation
in Lagos.
“Women who lured me into crime
abandoned me when I most needed
them. They even ran away with my
money, thinking that I would die. For
that, I developed deep hatred for them,”
he said, adding: “I smoke Indian hemp
and this also contributed to my
misbehaviour. I did not use condom
because I was not afraid of HIV/AIDS.”
Explaining how they recently operated at
the Ajao Estate before their arrest, Moses
said: “I was the one who supplied the
information about the warehouse we
robbed. I once worked in the warehouse.
I used to join my gang members in
house-to-house operations. I was outside
the warehouse one day when I was called
inside to join others in off-loading
cartons of assorted handsets. When I
entered, I saw my colleagues counting
money in millions. I alerted members of
my gang who invited Godogodo to join
us. They came in two Range Rover jeeps
(Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs).”
Recalling his arrest, Moses said: “My
wife gave birth to a baby girl and I
slaughtered a cow to celebrate her
naming, but unknown to me, the
scorpions (SARS operatives) were after
me over the warehouse robbery.”
Describing Godogodo, he said: “None of
us had the courage to look him in the
face. Everybody feared him. He is so
deadly to the extent that he would fire a
human being with AK47 rifle as if he
was killing a fowl. He killed policemen
mercilessly.”
A soldier, identified as Awa, denied the
claim by Uche, another suspect, that he
had been supplying the gang with
uniforms, saying that it was Obasi, also a
soldier, that supplied the uniforms to a
late member of the gang, whose name he
gave as Joseph.
Yinusa said he was forced to participate
in molesting victims’ daughters, adding:
“If you didn’t join them in that act, they
might suspect you and even kill you. So, I
did what they did to avoid such a
suspicion. At times, I would pretend to
do it, tuck back my organ into my pant
and dress up.”
Urogbo, Delta State-born Sunday said
Godogodo led the Oro, Kwara State
operation that rocked the whole state
recently. He said two gangs carried out
the robbery.
He said: “I am a commercial bus driver.
I used to ply Okokomaiko to Oyingbo.
We were more than 12 boys who
participated in Oro bank robbery in
January this year. We operated at Union
Bank and First Bank because both are
opposite each other. Paul, one of us
invited Godogodo because he was feared
by people and policemen. That fateful
day at about 5pm when the banks had
closed doors, Paul called and when we
got there, we started shooting. About
eight of us carried AK47 rifles with
loaded magazines.
“The shooting made people to run for
dear lives. When we reached the bank,
we used dynamite to blow open its door
and carted away money, both in naira
and dollars. We got over N10 million.
The operation lasted only five minutes.
Besides the Oro robbery, I participated
in the operation along Ijebu-Ode-
Shagamu Road. I drove the first motor
while Godogodo drove the second.
“It was Godogodo who opened fire on the
bullion van and forced its escorts to run
away. He later blocked the bullion van. I
don’t know how many millions of naira
we got there, but I was given N120,000.”
Corroborating Sunday, Godogodo said:
“Yes, I participated in the Oro robbery,
but some of my people are worse than
me. I prefer house-to-house robbery to
bank operations. I robbed where I had
correct information that there was big
money. I could clear anybody off my
way to get the money. But my members
also killed policemen.”
Godogodo, who said he did not take
delight in robbing the poor, said: “Big
men are selfish. When Paul and others
approached me, I did not hesitate
because I wanted to teach rich people
some lessons. I don’t rob poor people;
rather, I help them. I have a fish pond in
Ikorodu where I employ people and my
tenants live free of charge.by chibabynaija2
