LAGOS
— Notorious robbery czar, Abiodun Ogunjobi, aka Godogodo, who was
arrested recently in Lagos State, is currently telling the police how he
coordinated some of his operations within Lagos and some South-Western
states.
We
gathered that the 36-year-old native of Ogun State confessed to some
high profile deadly robbery operations within Victoria Island, Lekki and
Ajah axis of state.
Police sources told us that Godogodo has
also confessed to the gruesome killing of four officials of the
Department of State Services, DSS, whom he met at Alpha Beach Hotel
located around Lekki area of the state in August 2012 .
We learnt that Godogodo,
who was discharged from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital,
LASUTH, where he received treatments from bullet wounds sustained during
his arrest, weekend, told his interrogators, at the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, that he was left with no option than to kill
the DSS operatives who he said posed immense danger to his operation in
the hotel.
A source who craved anonymity said: “Godogodo told us that he didn’t know that the people he killed at Alpha Beach Hotel were DSS officials.
“He
said a member of his gang he identified as Yinusa, told him that some
policemen who were lodged in one of the hotel rooms had a fisticuff
with a member of his gang and when he went to the room, he said he
opened fire on everybody to prevent the police from attacking him.”
Vanguard
further gathered that the Lagos State office of the DSS is preparing to
liaise with the Lagos State police command to prosecute Godogodo.
Meantime, euphoria was high in SARS detention cell when Godogodo was brought in from LASUTH.
Sources told Vanguard that other robbery suspects detained in the cells chanted Godogodo’s name as he was led into his cell.
It was also gathered that the cell marshal where Godogodo was detained relinquished his position as the head of the cell immediately he stepped in there.
It
was also gathered that the breakthrough that led to Godogodo’s arrest
came after a three-week intensive search for the bandit in Ibadan, Oyo
State.
Vanguard gathered
that the officer in charge of SARS, Lagos, Abba Kyari, re-inforced the
search for him few days after the gruesome murder of the owner of 04
Hotel in Ajah and six others.
The search for Godogodo had been on in Lagos and the South-West for close to two decades.
The
policemen were already getting weary until the O4 hotel incident
rejuvenated the search. . Sources told Vanguard that Kyari
intercepted information linking Godogodo to
Ibandan and he was able to arrest a close member of his family who led
police to his mansion at Olowu, Egbeda area of Ibandan.
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