Notorious South-West
robbery czar, Abiodun Ogunjobi, aka,
Godogodo, has said that lack of
parental care was responsible for his
becoming a deadly robber. Godogodo who has terrorized the
zone for over 14 years, leading most
bank robberies and other deadly
operations, told Vanguard, yesterday,
during an interview at the state Police
Command headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos, that his parents abandoned him at an
early age to fend for himself. The compound where Godogodo was
arrested. The 36-year-old man, who spoke in
emotional laden voice, said he was the
eldest of the children and his mother
who he said was a sickler, died from
her sickness. My father was a wayward man “My father was a wayward man. He
was a drug addict and a gambler. My
mother was a sickler 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 rubber from refuse
dump. “The little money I made from it was
what I used in paying my school fees
in primary school and after I
graduated I went into the business of
robbery fully. “As a little boy I was sleeping on the
street and my father didn’t care. All he
cared about was to gamble away his
money and take drugs. “Gradually I started stealing and when
I got of age I started robbing people
at Katangura market, Iyana-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 had become
big time robbers. I joined them and in
one of our operations, I was shot in
the eyes by some vigilante men that
accosted us in Ogun State and I ended
up losing one of my eyes. “I would say after that incident I
became tough and very careful. I don’t
socialise, drink, smoke or go after
women. I saw those things as
weakness that could give out a tough
man. I have 3 children from 3 women “I have 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
didn’t participate in all the robbery
operations the police are accusing me
of. People like me because I am not
greedy, I make sure everybody gets
their own share after a 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, I have been
arrested. All I want is for the police to
give me a second chance. I will assist
them arrest all the robbers in Lagos
and South-West.” Godogodo coordinated Ogun, Kwara
robberies —Suspect Meantime, a suspected 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 said that Godogodo
coordinated the robberies. Sunday, who was arrested 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 sums of money from bureau de
change operators at the airport, told
Vanguard that on January 2013,
Godogodo and his right hand man,
Odun Paul, led them to rob in Oro
town, Kwara State. “We were 12 in number and we went
for that operation with eight AK-47
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 dynamite. “We went into FirstBank and carted
away all the money in it and
afterwards we struck at the opposite
bank and did the same. “Nobody was killed in that operation
because we operated unchallenged,
after which we drove to Ondo State
where we shared our loot. “I got N500,000 as my share and I
was happy. “Few weeks after that operation,
Godogodo called us for a bullion van
operation. We attacked the van along
Ijebu-Ode Sagamu Road in Ogun State
and opened fire on the van which was
not armoured. “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 whenever
we had him around in an operation,
we don’t fear the police. “He had the ability to confront the
police and overpower them. We didn’t
know he was going to be arrested this
easily. He has boasted severally that
he is going to kill a lot of policemen
whenever they come for him and he did not care dying before his arrest. I
don’t know how the police did it but
Godogodo is tough. ”www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/my-father-was-a-gambler-drug-addict-godogodo/

Nothing on earth justify robbery as their exist millions of Nigerian with no parental and societal support. Godogodo abi wetin be him name self have criminal provclivities right from childhood. In as much as parents play a crucial role in primary socialization of a child does not stop it from secondary socialization which a child pick up from society. Ok, after stealing and building the first, second and third house, why still continue in robbery? Till he acquire the fourth and fifth houses? A criminal always a criminal. According to italian criminologist C. Lambroso, stated that you can identify a child with criminal tendency mere looking the his skull! That guy should be rid off society no matter the prison sentence, he will go back to crime.

D police can still use himm as he earlier claim to assist d npf to arrest more arm robbers