~Sauron~:

What about De Rico in the East?? I heard he was more notorious than Anini and Oyenusi.

After Bakassi boys killed De Rico, his gang members went to the village De Rico was apprehended and shot 27 women n children DEAD!!!
Urban legend or not. . . . .someone needs to do a movie on these villains.

nuzo:

No be competition abeg oo.
Do your researches if you were born in the 90s.

That was the Igbo guy that I mention 3rd on my list. A movie has already been made about him; issakaba.

~Sauron~:

Ma mum told me about Anini. . . . .He is from the old Bendel state.
He got help from the Police(Inyanmu or something like that). . . .He would drive to the market and spray his loot for the suffering masses.
There was this 2nd in command. . . .Osunbor(the best marksman in the history of Naija armed robbery).

Oyenusi was in the early 80s or so. Legend has it that bullets couldn't kill him.
I heard after taking 96 bullets in his frame, he was still laughing at his shooters until he told em the schitzo about his mystic powers.
Learnt he died after a bucket of silica gel was splashed on his body.

Whatz the title of the movie?? I must get it.

nuzo:

Issakaba. You seem to be the only nigerian that have not seen the movie.
Dede mabiaku was one of the star actors.

~Sauron~:

Never heard of it. . . .
Wait a minute. . . .Is the movie strictly about De Rico's legendary status or some cooked up stories??
I saw the Anini(movie) on SKY some months ago and it was strictly made to mirror exactly what happened.
The costumes were superb(The old Naija police uniform was used) and the storyline/plot was crisp.

nuzo:

At least, 80% of it was about derico and the rest was how the defunct bakassi operated.

As for Anini; a life documentary was made starting from when he turned himself in to the firing squad. Am not sure it was the one you saw on SKY.

nuzo:

Issakaba. You seem to be the only nigerian that have not seen the movie.
Dede mabiaku was one of the star actors.

Baro:

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Issakaba is about the operations of the Bakassi Boyz, Derico's life and times was captured in a movie bearing his name; DERICO, where Emeka Ike played him

You meant Sam Dede

Lagosboy:
How can i forget d shina mey Rambo.

I remember one day at the toll gate going to Shagamu when police where searching under the carpets of our car and my dad asked why and they said they were looking for Shina Rambo Nigerian police don spoil tey tey.

I remember it was said his driver was a woman. God knows where dat guy is now as he was never caught but he willingly quit.

Mamajama:

Shina Rambo ko, this is all myth. the only notorious robber in Nigeria was Lawrence ANINI, and he was eradicated like a headless chicken

ElRazur:

Gosh half of the stuff posted here are just as good as reading Harry Porter and the willow of stone or something. It is even more fantasy than reading the books of revelation.


Sauron, do you seriously believe some of the story you were told?    Or do anyone really think some of the stories here are just pure third rated stories?


I was in Naija during the Anini era, and I remember vividly that his shooting sentence was shown on tv, and newspaper ran it as headlines story the next day. As per Shina Rambo, we heard many stories of him and he appears to just fade off after a while.


One thing that have come up here is the lack of record/archive and how it implication can manifest later on. A few post here appears to present their stories as facts etc, when in fact, it is all third and probably fourth-rate information that was passed down. I suppose if there was a news paper archive somewhere and proper journalism is practised, we may know the real truth. (In some western countries, you can find newspapers printed from the 18 century in archive page-by-page in libraries etc)



Do I think Anini disappeared? Nope. Not really, he made an escape instead and the poorly trained police see it as logical to blame voodoo - Something that is enshrined in our culture. That is, do not take blame but find something else to blame.

Having said that, from my recollection, some of the weapons used back then by the criminals (Shina Rambo especially) appeared to be sort of advanced weaponry back then. They had access to Semi Automatic weapons and this strike fear in people who may have witnessed them being used during a robbery operation.


Let us ask ourselves, how come in this day and age that the new bunch of super robbers coming out do not disappear or vanish into thin air like the ones of the 80s and 90s? Coincidence?

BabaOnileK:

As I mentioned earlier, the policemen back then had lesser weapons in terms of quantity and quality. Lots of what we call shakabula and not now that there are quite lots of SAWs available. Maybe the military were afraid of police connivance with coup plotters. I think it took democracy for us to see the quality and quantity of arms with policemen that we witness now. Why else were MOPOL called "kill and go"? Cos they had weapons and not semi-dane guns.

Ask around for those who schooled in Okota or lived there between 1988 and 1995 and they would tell you of AMHS, Mr Apata and his penchant for chasing armed robbers.

Jakumo:

Despite the issuance of Belgian FN, German G3, and Russian or Chinese AK47 assault rifles to the Nigerian army as far back as the Biafran war over four decades years ago, the Nigerian police, until the mid 1990s, had to make do with hand-me-down World War II-era British Lee Enfield bolt-action rifles, chambered for those huge 303-caliber cartridges that are renowned for their monstrous recoil.  Those venerable Lee Enfileds, were, on account of their wooden stock and forend, often mistaken for Nigerian-made single-shot muzzle-loader black powder (Dane) guns.

While bolt-action rifles still remain the preferred shooting rig of open plains game hunters and military snipers due to the superior and consistent accuracy of that ancient design, the slow rate of fire inherent with such manually reloaded weapons renders them singularly [b]un[/b]suitable for close quarters fire-fights of the sort that would be dominated by those equipped with high-volume, rapid-fire automatic weapons like the AK.  With the cops and robbers arms race thus tipping in favor of the bandits, the Nigerian police were issued Kalashnikovs and Korean K2 rifles capable of spraying robust volleys of 7.62x39mm and 5.56mm NATO rounds respectively, thus leveling the playing field somewhat.

Nigeria's highwaymen of the 21st Century, however,  tote RPG7 grenade launchers in addition to the usual plethora of light infantry weapons fielded by outlaws against the police force and sitting duck citizenry.

~Sauron~:

What about De Rico in the East?? I heard he was more notorious than Anini and Oyenusi.
After Bakassi boys killed De Rico, his gang members went to the village De Rico was apprehended and shot 27 women n children DEAD!!!
Urban legend or not. . . . .someone needs to do a movie on these villains.

drekid:

http://campusheat.ning.com/profiles/blogs/interviews-national-mirror

Oboy, See Juju  . .so that him legendary commando lady na spirit . .no wonder his legend wasn't complete without  the story of that commando lady who wrecked havoc along side him  . . . We were even told that his expertise was to recruits forsaken LovePeddlers and orientate them with a brutal training regime that converted them to disciples of mayhem . . .

aloy/emeka:

Shina is now a pastor. I am wondering why he was never tried for the multiple murders he committed.