I Wanted To Be Like Anini, Shina Rambo & Others – Arrested Robber, Kikiowo Confesses

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A 28-year old suspected armed robber, Gbenga Kikiowo, son of a retired soldier, has said that he chose to become an armed robber in order to be like dreaded notorious armed robbers namely Anini, Shina Rambo, Oyenusi among others, who had operated for the past 21 years in Nigeria.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the suspect made the revelation at the Ondo State Command in Akure, the state capital, where he said he started criminal activities when he was seven and had continued until he was recently arrested.

The suspect, Kikiowo, was arrested and paraded by men of the Ondo State Police Command at the State Police Headquarters in Akure, the state capital, after he was caught by the Police operatives with one of his gang members, Tope Aladeloye, 25, on their way to buy bullets ahead of an operation within the Oke-Aro area of the state.

He said his ambition was to be as popular as past notorious armed robbers in the country such as Ishola Oyenusi, Mufu Olosha Oko, Lawrence Anini and Shina Rambo, adding that he had also participated actively in robbery operations in Ghana, which made him an International criminal.

Recalling how he began, he said his robbery operation started from his home town in Igbara-Oke, headquarters of the Ifedore Local Government Area of the state at a tender age, and revealed that he had been jailed three times as he blamed spiritual attacks for his engagement in social vices.

“I called my partner, who normally goes with me for operations, and informed him that I had a gun with me but there was no bullet. So he told me to bring the gun down to Akure from Ife, which I did. It was on our way to buy the cartridge that we were arrested by the Scorpion Squad of the Police.

“Honestly, I don’t have any genuine reason for what led me to crime because I was born into a very rich family. I suddenly started stealing from my parents. They believed in traditional customs and that’s what they practiced; so the more they used spiritual solutions for me to stop my criminal act, the more I stole.”

“I even went to Ghana to rob. After a while, I brought my squad to Nigeria and we were arrested during an operation in 2015 and remanded in the Olokuta Prison.”

“My father’s name is Kikiowo Ayodele. He’s a very popular man in Igbara-Oke axis and married six wives with 24 children. He’s a well known retired soldier and also a farmer. He is rich in his own level, not educated but believes in his rugged life and farming.”

“My last hope was the gun I was caught with because I had made up my mind to quit local crime for big ones, like going international. That’s why I took the risk to look for a gun. I wanted to become an international armed robber like Mufu Olosha Oko and Oyenusi because I wanted my name to reign. I believed that it’s through crime that it could reign,” he said.

Kikiowo boasted that if not for the gun, there was no way the Police would have arrested him, stressing that he believed more in using intelligence to operate.

He also said he did not engage in searching for money when he went to steal from his victims, adding that he knew where exactly the money was.

“Through intelligence you can operate and do all things and you will achieve it. Let me tell you, I don’t look for money when I enter your room. I smell money,” he said.

The State Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami, said the Command received information from a reliable source about the move of a gang of armed robbers to carry out a robbery operations in Akure metropolis.

The Police boss said on receipt of the information, detectives swung into action and in the process, one Kikiowo and Aladeloye were arrested at Oke-Aro, Akure.

“The suspects also confessed to have been involved in other robbery operations within and around Ondo State. Items recovered were one pump action gun,” he said.

CP Salami added that Kikiowo and other paraded suspects will be charged to Court soon.