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| Godogodo and his gang: From left: Leke, Yinusa, Adelawo and Godogodo at the Police Command Headqauters, Ikeja, Lagos, Wednesday |
Sunday,
September 9, 2012, will remain indelible in the minds of some families
in LagosState, who lost their loved ones to the brazen attack of a gang
of heavily armed robbers, who laid siege to strategic points in the
state, killing at least three policemen and several other citizens,
while scores sustained injuries.
But
the arrest of all the members of the gang that operated that day,
including the notorious South-West robbery czar, Abiodun Ogunjobi, aka,
Godogodo, would bring relief to relatives and friends of those killed or
injured during the encounter.
Meanwhile,
Godogodo, who was arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad, SARS, led by SP Abba Kyari, on August 1, 2013, has revealed how
he coordinated the bloody operation. Bureaux de change robbery
He
gave chilling details of how he led members of the gang to cart away
millions of dollars from bureau de change operators in Agege and Gbagada
areas of Lagos. According to Godogodo, “ On that fateful day, I called
one of my boys, Sayeed Omolopa, to meet me at AlfaBeach in Ajah, and
some other boys led by Kasali and Ejike. “They were about seven and my
boys were five. Yemi Boss, who came with Ejike, said we should go to
Agege and rob some bureau de change operators.
The
agreement was that everyone will get what he lays his hands on. “We
used two vehicles and over nine AK-47 rifles. When we got to Agege, some
bureau de change operators that saw us ran to us thinking we wanted to
change money and we opened fire on them and ran into their shops to pack
all the money we found. “In fact, we robbed from shop to shop and we
also shot sporadically to scare people. We shot at people who tried to
block the road and prevent us from moving.
I
can’t count the number of people killed in that operation. “Wherever
people tried to block the road, we opened fire on them. The boys that
went with me for that job were notorious, they were difficult to control
but they all feared me. We made a lot of money from the operation
“While we were trying to escape, we met a team of policemen attached to
the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, and we thought they were after us.
On
approaching them, we opened fire on the van and killed all the police
in it and collected their rifles and escaped through Lagos-Abekuta road.
“Money was not shared after the operation because everyone took
whatever he was able to grab. When I got home I realised that I made
over N500,000, but some days later, I was informed that one of my boys,
Tosin, made over N6 million from the operation.
“Everybody
made a lot of money from the operation. I didn’t border to read the
newspapers the next day to know the extent of damage but I knew many
people lost their lives in that operation. You know, as robbers, we do
not go for operations to kill but we kill when we don’t have option.”
Why we killed policemen Godogodo also narrated how he and members of his
gang killed four policemen at Ajah, in February 2013, snatching three
AK-47 rifles from them.
He
said he killed the policemen because he wanted to recover his nine
rifles seized by the SARS operatives from one of his boys, Tosin.
Narrating the incident, Godogodo said: “After SARS operatives collected
nine of my rifles, I was left with only two AK-47 rifles and a pump
action rifle. “On that fateful day, we went to rob residents of Awoyaya
area in Ajah. I was with Odun, Oluwole,Yinusa and Sayeed Omolopa.
“We
robbed house-to-house and on our way home, we saw a police van and a
policeman behind the van was sleeping, Odun suggested that we attack
them and collect their rifles and I obliged. “We drove a Sports Utility
Van and approached them, opened fire on the patrol van and it veered
off the road. We went after it and killed all the policemen in the van
and collected their rifles. After that operation, we went to AlfaBeach
to cool off.” The Abule Egba killings Godogodo also narrated how he
killed a Police Inspector and a corporal at Abule Egba area of Lagos.
According
to him, “Ife and Oleh brought the job, they told me that we should go
and rob a man who had just returned from London with huge sums of money
and some drugs. “We went to his house and discovered that he was not at
home and we left in annoyance and went on to rob some people from
house-to-house.
“On
our way out, we spotted some policemen at Oko-Oba police station, they
didn’t know that we were robbers. We killed them before collecting
their rifles. “Some few months later, we snatched a white Range Rover
Sport in Ikeja and two of the occupants escaped with their phones.
“We
suspected that they were going to call the police. On arriving
Agidingbi Road, we spotted two RRS men on a motorbike and we thought
they were coming after us. We slowed down, by the time they got very
close to us, I opened the window and fired rapid shots at them, they
fell into the gutter with their motorbike and I sent my boys to get
their rifles before we drove off. “When we got to Coca-Cola junction,
there was serious traffic and we decided to make a turn. When we got to
the spot where the policemen fell, we saw some people who were trying to
help them and my boys opened fire on them again.
“We
managed to make our way to Medical Road, close to ComputerVillage, but
by then, the policemen there had received message of our operations and
the moment they sighted us, they opened fire and damaged our tyres. “We
managed the tyres up to Capitol Road. There was traffic and I came out
of my vehicle to clear the traffic and there was this Toyota Camry
following us.
I
didn’t know that there was an armed mobile policeman in it. When I
returned I discovered that Kasali was struggling with the mobile
policeman who was carrying a rifle. “I fired some shots at the
policeman. He attempted to run away, I chased him and killed him on the
spot before picking his rifle. We snatched another vehicle and
abandoned the Range Rover Sport before we escaped.
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