5 notorious criminals that can never be forgotten by -Nigerians
1. Lawrence Nomanyagbon Anini.
A large portion of us were not conceived then, at that point, yet for the individuals who filled during the 80s, the name Lawrence Nomanyagbon Anini can never be forgotten as one of Nigeria’s most famous equipped looters who ruled in the outdated Bendel State (presently Edo and Delta State)Anini otherwise called The Law, reigned dread during the 80s and was ridiculous to such an extent that his matter was even talked about at the State Security Council meeting in the General Ibrahim Babangida’s system.
Brought into the world in 1960 in a town around 20 miles from Benin City in present day Edo State, Anini moved to Benin at an early age, figured out how to drive and turned into a gifted cabbie, before he took to wrongdoing and immediately turned into a much-dreaded posse pioneer whose approach got individuals shaking.
His gangsters included Monday Osunbor, later known to be a feared executioner without benevolence, Friday Ofege, Henry Ekponwan, Phillip Iwebelue, Prince Kingsley Eweka, and others.Starting out as vehicle snatchers, transport burglars and bank cheats dominatingly in Benin, Anini, and his posse stretched out his crook acts to different towns and urban communities in different states in the country.
Anini was additionally ready to enter the police echelon and had a few top officials as his firearm providers and witnesses, the greatest of them being Inspector George Iyamu who benefited hugely from the posse.
On September 6, same year, the Anini pack grabbed a Peugeot 504 vehicle from Albert Otoe, the driver of an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Christopher Omeben. In grabbing the vehicle, they killed the driver and went to conceal his cadaver some place.
It was only after 90 days that the skeleton of the driver was spotted 16 kilometers from Benin, along the Benin-Agbor expressway. A day after this assault, Anini, working in a Passat vehicle accepted to have been taken, likewise affected the grabbing of one more Peugeot 504 vehicle close to the previous FEDECO office, in Benin.
Two days later, the Anini men killed two cops in Orhiowon Local Government Area of the state. In any case, in that month, three distinct burglary assaults, all highlighting Anini’s inclusion, took place.Anini along these lines stick headed a four-month rule of dread among August and December 1986. Anini likewise allegedly composed various letters to media houses utilizing political tones of Robin Hood-like words, to portray his criminal acts.Even the Military Head of State, Gen. Babangida got stressed over the exercises of Anini and asked the then Inspector General of Police, Etim Inyang where the outlaw was and gave him the command to get him in any condition.
Such was his ability and legend.
Anini was at long last captured in a significant activity drove by Superintendent of Police Kayode Uanreroro, who finished his rule of dread.
Anini who was restricted to a wheelchair all through his preliminary following the removal of one of his legs was condemned to death by Justice James Omo-Agege of the Benin High Court and was executed on March 29, 1987.
2. Shina Rambo
The name Shina Rambo has wouldn’t disappear from the cognizance of Nigerians who either saw his wrongdoing binge or were awful to live in that time.
The Abeokuta, Ogun State-conceived Rambo was a dread during the 90s and the mind behind numerous wrongdoings in the Western pieces of the nation where he looted and killed without any potential repercussions.
He was so dreaded even by the police that many idea he was undetectable as he was remembered to vanish whenever the police surrounded him.
It is accepted that the cops who killed him didn’t realize that it was Shina Rambo.He was supposed to be headed to Lanrewaju Motors to purchase a Pathfinder SUV when he was captured by the police on the Ojota New Garage Long Bridge.
Rambo was not the one driving when the police halted him and his pack, they found truckload of cash in an animation in the storage compartment of the Datsun vehicle.
Whenever they began addressing him on the ownership of such colossal a sum, a contention followed and he endeavored to incapacitate one of the police officers.
It was one of the cops at the opposite roadside who killed Rambo. It was said that it was not difficult to shoot him since he was not with his charms since he was not going for an activity.
3. Isiaka Busari otherwise known as Mighty Joe
Not long after the infamous head honcho of equipped burglary in Nigeria, Ishola Oyenusi was executed, his second in order, Isiaka Busari, also called Mighty Joe, assumed control over the scene and turned into the defacto ruler of the underground.Nigeria was all the while emerging from the aches of the nationwide conflict and with the passing of Oyenusi, they thought the period of fierce wrongdoings had been stopped from the beginning however much to their dismay that another punk would jump up and become deadlier.
In Mighty Joe’s posse were ex-officers who were grounded and with their skill in the treatment of firearms and other destructive weapons, they held the country, especially the South West, to deliver, looting and killing with total surrender.
Strong Joe was much deadlier than Oyenusi and was known to work at whenever he felt like and taking a human’s existence was nothing to him.
For a long time, he comprised himself a major dread to individuals of Lagos, the then Federal Capital, particularly around Mushin where he resided and rehearsed his exchange.
He stepped the side of the equator like a mammoth from 1971 when his manager was killed, till 1973 when he was seized subsequent to burglarizing an inn bar specialist, Michael Osayunana, of the amount of ₦10.
The capture of Mighty Joe, as indicated by legend, was essentially as sensational as his rule of fear. The so called ‘Strongman of Idi Oro’ was gotten when somebody he had before ransacked, remembered him and fingered him to the police and he was seized with no battle, as against his different flaunts that no man brought into the world of a lady can capture him because of his compelling confidence in his otherworldly powers.He was said to pay a few cultivators immense sums to plan charms for him so he would stay invulnerable.
While he was in jail anticipating his day at the Bar Beach, Mighty Joe switched over completely to Islam and, surprisingly, offered petitions that the execution is returned. That was never to be.
After he was attached to the stakes, he was approached to say his final words and he shouted:
“May God favor everyone, both my companions and adversaries. Tell my significant other, my mom and my in-regulation to stay in shape.”
4. Okwudili Ndiwe otherwise known as DericoOkwudili Ndiwe, moniker Derico Nwamama, was likewise one of the deadliest outfitted looters to have emerged from the Nigeria.In the mid 2000s, the 22-year-old Derico Nwamama was presumably the King of the Underworld in the Eastern pieces of the country; an unmistakable replication of any semblance of Lawrence Anini and Ishola Oyenusi.
Derico had ascended from a road imp and pick pocket to a feared wrongdoing lord and the simple notice of his name sent shudders down the spines of brokers and inhabitants of Onitsha, the business capital of Anambra State, and different pieces of the east.
The dealers couldn’t show their products with harmony while many laid down with one eye open. Derico fired business banks in Onitsha, trucking away huge number of Naira. Explorers who needed to go through the state held their breaths, anticipating that the punk should strike whenever.
The then Governor of the state, Chinwoke Mbadinuju, turned into an elderly person over night with stresses on the most proficient method to deal with the threat of Derico.
He was portrayed as the representation of dread. From Nnewi to Nkpor, from the towns in Umuleri to towns in Ihiala, the old and youthful were panicked at the simple murmur of Derico Nwamama.
Around then, he was supposed to be imperceptible and couldn’t be captured. The feared Bakassi Boys went on a manhunt for the man known to kill without fluttering an eyelid.
As per legend, Derico Nwamama had killed more than 100 individuals including 25 cops whose lives he savagely squandered. He was an expert of incalculable transport thefts and won’t flicker two times prior to siphoning his hot lead shots into the thumping hearts of hapless victims.And after his effective attacks, he would gloat and proclaim himself strong. Derico appeared to have set a ton of confidence and trust in the charms ready for him by the customary witch-specialists.
With the police and other security powers incapable to bring Derico Nwamama and his dread system to a nearby, the onus fell on the Bakassi Boys, the assailant wing of the Anambra Vigilante Services (AVS), a neighborhood vigilante bunch set up to check wrongdoing and culpability in the South East.
The gathering were then at the front of the chase and catch of Derico Nwamama and on Tuesday, July 3, 2001, the up until recently imperceptible lawbreaker was captured en route to Onitsha from Agbor, apparently on one of his wrongdoing binge.
On July 9, 2001, six days after Derico was caught at the Niger Bridge, the Bakassi Boys did to him what many had before anticipated. Reciting war tunes, they drove in their guard around the town and finished at the Ochanja Market Junction along the well known Upper Iweka Road in Onitsha.
Derico was hauled out from the transport, looking skinny and seriously beaten, a brand name of the vigilante bunch. His body bore cuts and slashes, a demonstration of what he probably gone through in their grasp. He should likewise have realized that the moment of retribution has come.He was in clear torments yet nobody appeared to mind. As yet reciting war tunes and egged on by the captivated group, one of the administrators of the Bakassi Boys named Okpompi, tended to the group, letting them know they were in the state not so much for governmental issues but rather to battle wrongdoing.
He gave over the amplifier to the now shuddering Derico who, similar to a cornered fox, started asking for his life to be saved. He made weak efforts to proclaim his blamelessness:
“I am Oddy, assumed name Derico, moniker Nwa Mama. I appeal to you individuals of Anambra State, kindly don’t kill me, I could do without evil. It was the point at which I killed Chiejina that individuals thought I am a solid person, you know.
I trust Bakassi Boys. They are solid. Please, benevolence for me. It’s not possible for anyone to distinguish me as having ransacked him.
5. Abiodun Egunjob
i otherwise known as GodogodoAbiodun Egunjobi, moniker Godogodo, was the current rendition of Lawrence Anini. The one-peered toward beast was one of the deadliest outfitted burglars Nigeria at any point had.
The 36-years of age Godogodo rose from being a ghetto kid to the head of a group that challenged all reasons, hit with accuracy, killed without kindness and threatened Lagos and the south-west with total surrender.
Prior to his capture on August 1, 2013, Godogodo gave the Lagos State Police Command such a lot of migraine for quite a long time, to such an extent that on the day he was captured, the order emitted in delight: essentially its men would be protected from his weapons.
Initially from Ogun State, Egunjobi was on the needed rundown of the police for more than 10 years and the manner in which he figured out how to dodge the police is as yet amazing.
As a matter of fact, he was all at once, on the highest point of the Most Wanted rundown of the Command with a few Police Commissioners relegating the hardest of police following right after him.
Around then, any theft in Lagos had the engraving of Godogodo, with him driving or one of his young men being mindful. He was popular for driving numerous theft tasks, particularly on banks, with the scandalous standing of killing more than 100 cops in Lagos State.Godogodo purportedly went for activities with a sack containing 10 completely stacked AK 47 rifles with 30 rounds of ammo each and accordingly, he was completely ready regarding weapons on his back.
It was accumulated that Godogodo used to tell his gangsters that he could never be captured alive and had promised to go down with however many cops as would be prudent on the day he can’t get away from capture.
This promise was subsequently observed to be genuine, as against theft investigators recuperated a few stacked AK47s, each with 60 rounds of live ammo, from various pieces of his home, including the kitchen, room, restroom, parlor upon the arrival of his capture.
He was so great at camouflaging his crimes that even his better half and relatives never knew what he was into. He had six houses in various areas including Lagos, Ogun and Ondo States, and never remained in a specific area for over a month.
Godogodo started his journey into the destructive universe of wrongdoing subsequent to burning through seven years in jail for what he thought about a minor offense.
As a piece vendor in the ghetto of Gatankowa, Abule-Egba, he was associated with a battle and the police captured him. With nobody to rescue him, Godogodo was shipped off prison and in his psyche, he accepted his going to jail was a shamefulness and faulted the police for it.
While in jail, he got to know all the more lethal equipped looters and shaped a collusion with them and got some margin to student them. Whenever he at last left jail, he concluded that he planned to manage the police for sending him to jail for seven years.During his cross examination, Godogodo let the police know that he took just crude money during his activities and would just go after a spot he realized there would be sufficient money to truck away. He likewise said he has no ledger as he put all his cash in the property following every activity.
Monastery Godogodo visited numerous Lagosians with distress, tears, and blood. Many wouldn’t fail to remember Sunday, September 9, 2012, when he and his group threatened the state and made permanent imprints in the personalities of numerous families after he drove a planned assault in the city where numerous honest individuals including cops lost their lives.
He uncovered how he composed the ridiculous activity and gave chilling subtleties of how he drove individuals from his posse to truck away huge number of Dollars from agency de change administrators in Agege and Gbagada areas of Lagos.
The Lagos State Police Command drove by the then Commissioner, Umar Manko, ordered the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), drove by Superintendent of Police, Abba Kyari, to stop the rule of Abbey Godogodo and that started escalated examinations which prompted the capitulation of his realm.
Manko was provided direct requests by the then Inspector General of Police to ensure the Godogodo peculiarity was subdued at all expense.
After the group went after the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, where two police examiners and in excess of five individuals were killed and over N100 million taken, the police chose to zero in on profiling the suspect, in light of the fact that, up to that point, nobody had significant familiarity with him for sure he seemed to be. The police additionally started taking a gander at the chance of acquiring his ensuing activities.