END OF THE FOR A NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL ......... I started robbery in 1996 and in 1999 I was charged for fighting and I spent more than seven years in prison. My prolonged stay in prison for the minor crime of fighting hardened me and I vowed to pay back the police for that injustice,” he revealed. “After I was released I went to Katanguar, in Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos to meet my friend Odun, who was arrested by the police recently at O4 Hotel in Ajah”. Godogodo: End of road for ‘most wanted robber’ The Police in Lagos have arrested an alleged notorious armed robber nick-named Godogodo, whose multiple gangs terrorise most states in the South West with deadly strikes. Weekly Trust gives the last minute account of the operation that captured the ‘most wanted robber’. The almost two decade reign of terror by Abiodun Ogunjobi, also referred to as ‘Abbey Godogodo’, by men of the underworld came to an abrupt end on Wednesday, July 31. On the said day, a crack team of police detectives from the Lagos State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) stormed his Ibadan palatial home where he was arrested. Weekly Trust investigations revealed that events which culminated into Godogodo’s arrest started several weeks ago with painstaking intelligence gathering. It also involved the profiling of hundreds of notorious armed robbers who had operated within the Lagos metropolis. The onus of profiling these robbery suspects, hundreds of them, rested squarely on the shoulders of the Officer-In-charge of SARS, Superintendent of Police (SP) Abba Kyari who had earlier received a matching order from the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko to fish out the suspect dead or alive. Weekly Trust learnt that the recent order was sequel to the July 7th, 2013, gruesome murder of seven persons at O4 Hotel, in Ajah area of Lagos. His gang which was fingered in the crime also killed the owner of the hotel, one Olanrewaju Subair and the subsequent killing of two policemen at Ebute Ero and Ajao Estate areas of the metropolis same day. An impeccable source at the Command Headquarters told Weekly Trust, in confidence, that the Lagos police boss, while addressing Area Commanders and their respective Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) stated that he would never allow anybody or group of persons involved in the killing of policemen to go free. Armed with this Order, Kyari expanded his drag net within and beyond the South-West area stretching as far as Edo, Delta, Anambra, Imo and Rivers States. It was learnt that the reason behind the expansion was that Kyari had a hunch that Godogodo belong to several other gangs which also operated in other urban cities of the country. This experiment paid off penultimate Wednesday when the detectives laid ambush around Godogodo’s twin duplex located at Olowu area of Egbeda LGA of Oyo state patiently waiting for him to emerge from his inner chamber. Sources close to the Command Headquarters told Weekly Trust that before his arrest the police team expanded their drag net in the hope of closing in on Godogodo. The team of detectives narrowed down their search to a group of about 15 suspected armed robbers who had at one time or the other had something to do with the most wanted notorious armed robbery suspect in the South-West, since after the arrest of famous Anini gang that terrorized Benin City before he was arrested by Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Parry Osanyande. All efforts to arrest him with contacts from his numerous houses in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states failed as not even one member of his gang knew where he lives. The 36 years-old most wanted armed robber in the South-West, told Weekly Trust at the Command Headquarters on the day he was arrested that, one of his tactics is to drive himself home after each successful operation, having collected his own share of the loot. “I live a private life and kept everything to myself where I live in Ibadan. I do not attend parties, nor do I visit drinking joints”, he said. “Similarly, I don’t make calls twice with one SIM card. I have over 1000 different registered SIM cards. I put a SIM card aside the moment I put a call through to anybody and may likely not use same in the next one year,” he said. Narrating how he was arrested, a police source told Weekly Trust that as days dragged into weeks and weeks into months with no trace of Godogodo, the team decided to kidnap some of his close confidantes and business associates. “All those interrogated by the police do not know where Godogodo lives” one of them told our reporter. The story that made the round, according to one of the suspects, was that Godogodo is beyond arrest and that he was battle ready for the police anytime they come after him. “He boasted to some of his colleagues in crime that the police can never arrest him alive. And should they come after him he would kill as many of the policemen before his death” one of the robbers alleged. The suspect alleged that the fear of Godogodo by other gang members was the beginning of wisdom. However, the team later stumbled on an information from an arrested lady who gave them the description of where the suspect lives. Armed with the information, the police set out on the hunt for the suspect. They left the command headquarters at about 11pm in four unmarked vehicles like traders and farmers. The team arrived the suspect’s mansion at Olowu area of Egbeda local government area of Oyo State at about 2am on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, with the reassuring fact that the suspect was inside. Kyari advised his men to lie low and wait when he will emerge from inside his compound. He advised that on no account should they enter Godogodo’s house. At about 10am, Godogodo emerged dressed in a simple shirt and jeans, on his way to inspect a new house under construction. The first shot that got him from the police snipers threw him off guard and before he could put together what was happening the entire area was taken over by policemen who took cover waiting for him in the nearby shrubs and buses. A search conducted in Godogodo’s house revealed several exotic cars parked on a neatly laid interlocking stones. A further search led to the discovery of two AK47 rifles, over a 1000 SIM cards of different networks, and police bullet proof vest. He was said to be living with his wife, two children and a lady. “I started robbery in 1996 and in 1999 I was charged for fighting and I spent more than seven years in prison. My prolonged stay in prison for the minor crime of fighting hardened me and I vowed to pay back the police for that injustice,” he revealed. “After I was released I went to Katanguar, in Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos to meet my friend Odun, who was arrested by the police recently at O4 Hotel in Ajah”. “Odun was an armed robber then and we started operating together. We worked with several other gangs and I invested lots of my money in arms buying. I also built five houses in Ifo, Ilaro, Ikorodu and Ibadan. I usually kill policemen and take their rifles because policemen have killed several of my boys and taken most of my rifles from them. “I have no regrets for all I have done. I have no advice for young people who want to become armed robbers like me. I have three children from three women. The police should take all my property,” the suspect said. The Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, confirmed to journalists shortly after the arrest that the suspect was responsible for the alleged killing of many policemen and civilians in Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Oyo states in the last12 years. NEWS..... 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