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Notorious armed robbery kingpin in South West Abiodun Ogunjobi, AKA, Abey Godogodo, yesterday was discharged from hospital where the Lagos State police command took him for treatment before he would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
He spoke to newsmen immediately he was brought to the command and blamed his criminal escapades to improper home training and lack of parental care.
Godogodo who gave residents of Lagos, Oyo, Ogun and Ekiti States sleepless nights for over 14 years led most of the bank robberies and other deadly highway robberies in recent times.
In an interview with the suspect at the State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos, the suspects noted that his parent abandoned him in an early age to fend for himself.
The 36-year-old suspect, said he was the eldest of his parents’ children and his mother whom he claimed was a sickler, died from the ailment.
" My father is a wayward man. He is a drug addict and a gambler. My mother is a sicker and she died after giving birth to my youngest brother. But my father, who got married to another woman, didn't bother to take care of me. As a little child I struggled through primary school, picking bottles, iron and rubbers from refuse dump.
“The little money I made was what I used in paying my school fees in primary school and after I left primary school, I went into the business fully. As a little boy I was sleeping on the street and my father didn't care about me. All he cared about was to gamble with his money and smoke hard drugs. Gradually I started stealing and when I grew up, I started robbing people at Katangua market, Iyani-Ipaja. But in 1999, I was arrested and sent to prison for fighting and when I came back some of the boys who were operating with me then have become big-time robbers. I joined them and in one of our operations some vigilante men that accosted us in Ogun State shot me on my eyes.
“I ended up losing one of my eyes. I would say after that incident I became very careful. I don't socialize, drink, smoke or go after women. I lived a lonely life as an armed robber. I saw that thing as weakness that could give out a tough man. I had three children from three women, I ran away from my other wives because the police wanted to use them to arrest me.
I also want to make it clear that I did t participate in all the robbery operations the police is accusing me of. People like me because I am not greedy, I make sure everybody get a their own share after any successful operation. Some of these boys also go out on their own to rob and when they are arrested they will tell the police that they are my boys.
I can't lie anymore have been arrested all I want is for the police to give me a second chance. I will assist police to arrest all the robbers in Lagos and South West." He pleaded.
Meanwhile, while a suspected armed robber, Felix Sunday, AKA, ‘K Money’, who took part in two bank robberies in Kwara State and a bullion van robbery, in Ogun State, this year has narrated how Godogodo coordinated the robberies.
K Money, who was arrested in March 2013, after a deadly robbery attack at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, where he and members of his gang killed two policemen and carted away huge sum of money from Bureau de change operators at the airport, told newsmen that on January 2013, Godogodo and his top men, Odun, Paul led us then to Oro, Kwara State.
"We were 12 men and we went for that operation with eight Ak47 rifles. We struck at the banks around 5pm that day and we started shooting indiscriminately. People ran away for safety and a member of the gang who is a dynamite expert blew open the bank doors with his dynamite. We went into the first bank and carted away all the money in it and afterwards we struck at the opposite bank and did the same it. Nobody was killed in that operation because we operated unchallenged, after which we drove to Ondo State, we shared our loot there. I got five hundred thousand naira as my share and I was happy. Few weeks after that operationGodogodo called us for bullion van operation. We attacked the van along Ijebu-Ode Shagamu Road in Ogun State and opened fire on the van, which was not armored.
“We over powered the policemen and took over the van containing both local and foreign currencies and we shared it. Godogodo was a source of inspiration to all of us and when ever we have him around in an operation we don't get scared of the police. He has the moral and charisma to confront the police and over power them. We didn't know he was going be arrested this easily, he has boasted severally that he is going to kill a lot of policemen when ever they come for him and he does not care dying before his arrest. I don't know how the police did it but Godogodo is tough. " He stated
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