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The quotes are gotten from the. Book "the mafia manager" by mr V

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The Underground Gangs of south side

Gangs have existed from time immemorial, and no one cud possibly see or pin point the true original gang or where it originated from (I stand to be corrected). Every settlement on planet earth has a history of how this gang started and why they started. But one thing I have noticed is that gangs are older than many of the most recognised cult or frat groups we know of today.

Every gang started as a neighbourhood clique of some high and promising/talented youths or teenagers who wanted to live the life. The thought of money and how to dominate others by instigating fear in them are one of the major prerequisite of what we know of gangs today.

Developed countries are not left out. In the United States we hear of the bloods, Crips, nortenos, surenos etc. So let's not make a big deal out of it.

My name is Mr X and welcome to the underworld of gang life. In the south side.

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The year is 1996, and I grew up in sector U of W district (not real names) in Delta state I was roughly 5 years old. We were living in a room and parlour in one of the streets of sector 12. While I was young I heard stories of jaguda boys always cleaning (robbing) people at knife point. The question is what were they stealing?. Probably a purse with at most 50 naira (now valued at about 500 naira in 2015) or wrist watch and petty valuables. Now this miscreants are. Usually 4 in numbers, they are not affiliated to popular frat, they were members of their own clique, nameless but identifiable by few who know about their activities. They sell whatever they rob from people and upgrade their wardrobe from gbogbo (Okrika/second hand clothes) to original stock clothes back then, visit party houses and spend the night with okpoh (prostitutes). Many of the area men (street boys) take note and are envious to join the crew or make a crew out for them self to reap from the sweat of hard working Nigerians. Even the few who were still living of petty robbery began to develop huge appetite. Such was the case of egbeh Kongo who was a" one man mopol" (lone robbery gang) who terrorised the streets of sector 12. He was well known by residents but who dare report him to the authorities? Attempt at your own peril. His appetite grew from petty cleaning, to breaking into stores den progressed into home invasions, rape and den high way robbery. Other cliques saw him as what they needed and then he was now a member of an unnamed gang. This gang specialised in high way robbery with their "wet kala" (locally made guns) and "egbele"(charms) which made them invisible. When they are back from such trips they were d talk of town. Their spending spree was really jaw opening. Unfortunately we don't have the FBI or detectives as we see in the American movies. But there's a saying the world belongs to the patient man. Egbeh Kongo ran out of luck when they were busted by high way patrol. Their wet kala was no match for the dry kala (AK-47) rifles of the police his gang was killed and him sent to high school (prison). Egbeh Kongo was later freed and he turned cop who helped in putting many street gangs/criminals behind bars. But karma is yet to be served. Egbeh Kongo killed when he was tricked to come and arrest some criminals. He was beaten to pulp a block attached to his body and dumped in a river and his body never recovered. That was d story I was told by my elder siblings and parents alike that when I grew up I should be a very good boy and all. Before my 5th birthday we relocated to U sector in U district. From this point I began to see what really underground crew (gangs) were really all about? Join me as I take u on a journey.

Often you lose the bait when u catch the fish, but it's a necessary loss- unknown[/]


I have been living in U sector of U district in delta state since April 1996. U district shares a boundary with O sector of W district in delta state. Since 1996 I have noticed how neighbourhood gangs evolved and they evolve from d following ways (these are personal observations)
1. Primary school cliques
2. Secondary school cliques
3. Post-secondary school cliques
4. Community/ indigenous cliques
I have had experiences with all of them and I will take my time to talk about all their activities, how they. Started and what they have morphed into in our society today. So let's begin:

[b]PRIMARY SCHOOL CLIQUES
Most of these cliques are found in the only government primary school in U sector. They are from low class families whose parents are mainly labourers and petty traders. At this stage they are exposed to many negative things like smoking, drinking various brands of locally made gin popularly called ogogoro shekpe, monkey. Tail, red and white roots, kpetesh etc. They are not properly fed, and lack proper home training, their clothes are shattered and many can't read or right because their parents are illiterates. To make matters worse, their after school. Hours include hawking till late evening and den playing and loitering the neighbourhood with their likes.
Like the saying birds of the same feather flock together. What are the negative things this primary school cliques do? They include:
1. Bullying of their mates
2. Staging of after school fights to prove their dominance
3. Defecating (which they learnt from the community/indigenous gang)
4. Staging of intraschool fights between their cliques and other cliques within and outside the school compound (Which I experienced personally over stupid issues)
5. Skipping classes during school hours to residential areas to pluck fruits and do all sorts of nonsense.
6. Smoking
The list is endless.
When I joined E primary school 1 of U sector in U district. The school was composed of schools 1, 2 and 3. Each school had their most notorious and feared personalities or individuals most of whom were school prefects; up till now I still wonder why the school management would appoint such illiterates who could barely spell their names out as senior prefects. Back then school 1 had the likes of paleke, tugege and jagajaga boy. School 2 had Dijalla, Ole motor and school 3 had koboko. At a time when I was 10 and still in primary four, these dudes were in their twenties and in primary six so you could get the picture of why they were the most feared pupils back then and there was no doubt why the school authorities deem them fit to appoint them as senior prefects. They were so influential that they had followers, they decided who would drink water from school taps, and they were class monitors/prefects so we can call them the adolescent mafia of E primary school of U district. These individuals never crossed paths but when they do its usually hostile the only friendly issue bringing them close together is nothing more than gambling.

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For easy analysis I would discuss about each gang individually starting from the school 1 gang. This gang is made up of 3 cliques or sets each belonging paleke, tugege, jagajaga boy. There are known to be very athletic, huge in body size and will oppress anybody who comes their way. They always evade punishment, because they rarely come to school talkless of class. Their headquarters is the School 1 building that's where they hang around bullying anyone at will; report at your own peril. The only way to avoid their okpetu (trouble) is by blending (taking series of beatings/flogging for a specified period of time). Once blended, you are free from their troubles but it comes at a price; as a saying goes fire can be concealed but not smoke. It doesn't take long to know that that dude is now in the paleke/tugege/jagajaga clique because you begin to notice their absence from class and their academics begin to suffer.

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During my stay in E primary school 1, school 1 clique arch rivals are the school 3 gang led by koboko who should be around 25 at that time.
They never crossed paths. I remember countless time where a football match would end in fights between the two cliques and the fighting would continue after school.
Funny enough the leaders of these cliques are not involved in the melee but they ginger/put am for body (hypnotise) their followers who just to impress their leaders fight to the blood.
And most of the followers are aged between 9-13 years; and since it's a government school, nobody cares; the authorities turn blind eye or are not even aware because most of this happens after school hours.
The school 1 clique has strong alliance with the school 2 clique lead by the Dijalla and ole motor and vice versa thus making school 3 the main arch enemies of school 1 and 2.
This is because most of the biggest and oldest primary school students at that time were in school 3, so we begin to get the picture why school 3 has more enemies.

With this rivalry going on we can now begin to see where the issues of gang activities started from. So advice to parents please watch over your kids.

Another issue here is to look at the background of these individuals one by one

1. Tugege- whose real name is Sunday as at 2002 he should be in his early 20s and was in primary four. He was no better than an illiterate. Why was this? His parents were also illiterate. His mom is an ogogoro (dry gin) seller while the dad is labu (daily labourer) and these two can barely provide for themselves not to talk about their children. He was Just a product of daily exercise by his parents who have nothing to do but to lash (have sex) with themselves.
His parents tried to enrol him in school but his failed grades made him repeat classes repeatedly little wonder he was that old and still in primary four;
And having growing up in a slum where things are rugged and disorganised you begin to get the picture of how he morphed into a primary school monster

2. paleke- I don't know much about his upbringing but he's muscular, fierce and loves football. His upbringing was much better than that of tugege because his parents had their own house but he gave in to the. Pressures of rugged life; probably because he sees it every day and took interest in it.

3. Jagajaga boy- his real name is Paul, and he got his nickname from his attitude and lifestyle he’s one of the most dirtiest boys back then and he was coated or tattooed with eczema, his dressings was really an eye sore and appalling . Whatever he does its left in ruins or in a worse situation. If he steals meat b rest assured that d pot would be better off replaced than washed. He's known for stealing just anything. Once he was caught stealing a lady's sanitary pad. Like tugege he came from a very poor neighbourhood. Never knew his parents but as the name speaks so he answered and lives his lifestyle.

4. Dijalla- Dijalla was one of the first primary school “students” I saw who took bazz (cigarettes) and took shots of ogogoro. His eyes were always red and the only confrontation I had with him almost landed me in trouble if not for a very close friend of mine who was a member of his clique. He happens to be an indigene of U sector and probably learnt his lifestyle from the happenings of his environment

5. Ole motor- I later got to know him after we graduated from primary school. His home background was quite fair enough judging that his dad is an owner of two houses and a car, his older siblings are very responsible people. As the name implies, ole motor means car thief and you don’t need to know what he did to get that name.

6. koboko- the only word I could use in describing this fellow is THUG and that says it all. At night he’s a bus conductor in the day time he’s a 26+ year old bullying kids in primary school. One can tell that his upcoming wasn’t that rosy otherwise he would have been a better citizen.

Looking at the background of these individuals, one thing is common, they grew up in the streets where the low class and lowly placed citizens are resided.
This is also the same neighbourhood where I grew up. And one thing is common and this can be summed up in one word “negative”.

Here you find poor fathers who can’t train their kids due to their jobs and bad lifestyle thus pushing these kids to the extreme. They steal to improve their pockets, they are sent on errands to buy cigarettes and ogogoro which they could not resist the temptations to try these things out and it proved to be the turning point which have morphed them to the mini beasts they are today.

Society awaits as we analyze how members of the primary school gang evolved to the nxt phase

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Live with wolves, learn to howl- unknown


THE SECONDARY SCHOOL GANGS
Once out of the primary school system, pupils spend up to three months at home waiting their first school leaving certificate/primary six result. During this time many are given the opportunities to write entrance exams into various secondary schools both owned privately and by government alike.

I was opportune to have my secondary education at ABC College in W district which was run by the federal government.

The two and half months of awaiting admission into JSS1 was eagerly anticipated for; because it was another phase where paradigm shift has taken place in my life.
I was happy because I thought I would be free from the oppression and nuisance of the “godfathers of the primary school mafia”, I was also happy due to the fact that I was getting admitted into the boarding house but my anticipation and expectations were cut short that very night after my siblings left me in the hands of school authorities.
It was there I started experiencing oppression in another format. In the junior secondary section were ruled and controlled by the JSS3 students. In my hostel the name jojo still rings a bell because I wonder if this guy was ever somebody’s son or just another possessed demon

Jojo was renowned for his short temper that even his own class mates were scared of him because he was short tempered.
ABC school is a mixed school and comprises of four houses namely

Regional – also called areggi house is identified by the colour red as their hostel uniform
Niger - identified with the colour green as their hostel uniform

School- identifiable by the colour yellow

Kilimanjaro – also called jaro and identified by the colour blue

Students are assigned to this houses at random by the school authorities. I was assigned to areggi house which means all through my stay I had to represent the colour red.

This story is focusing strictly on the male aspect of the school. The houses are further sub-divided into two groups:

Senior boys hostels which sited when entering the school environment

Junior boys hostel
This hostel is composed of buildings which are shared by these houses. My first night is a night I will not forget so long my brains are still functioning. Barely hours after I checked into my hostel a tall dude named juicebox came into our room and extorted money and provisions from us. It was really surprising because he gave one other Greenleaf (new JSS1 student) a hot slap for proving stubborn, he dared us to report him if “we want to die”.
For the first time in my life as a young teenager I was scared. Our direct seniors didn’t help matters; they kept telling us stories about how he used jass (juju) to evade teacher’s punishment and how he visits students spiritually at night and blablabla.

The junior boy’s hostel which is composed of four houses each have a house captain who is in SS3 and he acts like the governor or such who reports to the house master. Their function is to see that there is orderliness in the hostels but as the saying goes “many things in life are beyond our control” they were largely unsuccessful in checking the illegal activities of crews (gangs).

Every house in junior boys have a notorious name who rep their colour (hostels) in many ways, ranging from girls, sports, fights. Etc. the junior boys’ hostel fits perfectly with the title “juvenile prison”.

It is very common for student to get acquainted with alias or nicknames. I wasn’t exempted because in order to belong I had to give myself one. First I was named lanky planky but by the time I was leaving the school my household name became Scotty to hotty.

Cresting (graffiti writing) is also something everybody must learn while in secondary school, I was largely influenced by this as I was addicted to the sight of anything that looks like marker or a pen one could use in inscribing and defacing school facilities. To escape the wrath of senior students I was advised by those who cared to look for someone who would act/serve as my “school father”. Which I did (school fathers are mostly in SS3).
One has to be wise in who he chooses as school father; if you choose a resh (weakling) as one be ready to suffer. To enjoy the motherly love and sometimes the bonus that comes with it, you also have to get a school mother; while your school father protects you from the wolves who lurk around and disguise themselves as senior students; school mothers are there to give you some extra goodies. But let’s face business.

Find a place in the system where you can manage others- unknown

FROM INNOCENT TEEN TO A MONSTER

The boarding house of any government owned secondary school can be seen as a mini prison in my own words because when you are admitted there are wolves who are looking for vulnerable students.

To quickly access how gangs evolve from young ambitious teens to one of the most feared students in the school compound we need to analyse them.

In ABC College these are the stages that may turn a young student into a hard man on college ground:

JS1- young Greenleaf (freshman) who just resumed school is been passed through school orientation on how he should show maximum respect/submission to his seniors; the seniors in turn capitalise on this.

They throw stunts (a situation where two senior students send you on an errand at once). On JS1 students who are so scared that the loser of the stunts end up taking square-ups (bribes) in order to escape punishment.

They also serve as utensil keeper for their seniors, they serve as laundry men, they copy notes for senior students. They are the slaves of virtually senior students. They are also prone to obtaining (extortion).

This was the case of those that are not very lucky to find their school fathers. By this stage the JS1 students have decided to pass their anger on the newest junior students who would resume next session.

This is where the young innocent teens are gradually becoming hidden monsters of ABC college of W district in delta state. The only way they can form a rebellion is by regularly casting (reporting the senior students to school masters who in turn serve severe punishments to the senior students).

Senior students always avoid these sets of students like me because we are tagged harry-potter (the corrupt form for “a reporter”) due to the fact that we always lived up to the name.

JS2- after been abused for a whole session by virtually everybody, the arrival of greenleaves put nothing but ear to ear smile on the faces of the new “senior students”.

Because they are already anticipating their revenge or grievances on the only would be victims they could lay their hands on.

They don’t have to do their hostel chores anymore and the new greenleaves are on the receiving end of everything. For the JSS2 its one burden off the shoulder

JS3- these cliques are called are the lords of the junior hostels.
To them they run everything every underground deals that is within the boundary of the junior boys’ hostel.
Many of which includes having errand boys at their disposal in the personalities of the JS1 and JS2 subordinates.
Other illegal runnings (activities) includes stealing from the school kitchen, bringing contraband items which were prohibited like stoves, can/tin foods, ring boilers, electric kettles and others which they use in cooking their “stolen food”.

They stockpile these items in the ceilings and when they are on the run they scale (escape) into building roofs in their well-prepared routes and are never seen.

SS1- also known as the greenleaves of the senior hostel. Their experience here is very similar to that of the JS1 students but on a different dimension. They are the errand boys of the SS2 and SS3 students; the only difference here is that when the errand they are been sent for is getting too much, they in turn invade the junior hostels to get junior students who would carry out the errands for them at their own supervision.

SS2- these are the next landlords of the senior hostels, many are very vicious and fierce. They virtually don’t do anything on their own because they have SS1 students who would channel errands given to them down to the junior students. At this point they begin to feel more or less like the SS3 students.

These many times leads to confrontations and these confrontations leads to fights and brawls which may last up to a week. Back then the only way school authorities handle them is through heavy suspensions or expulsion from school ending their reign of terror.
It is at this stage that we begin to witness the birth of set-up (gangs).


It was from SS2 students that I heard set-up like the west coast brotherhood(WCB), dreaded knights (DKs), G-unit (Guerrilla unit), Black reverends, Black pope, DX, LXG (league of extra ordinary gentlemen).

It was so bad to the extent that they tag their school uniforms with their set-up names. This is something that the SS3 students don’t want to see and when confrontation occurs, some of these confrontations are done deliberately by the SS2 students by purposely inscribing cresting that are provocative on full display towards the SS3 students and when the confrontation occurs, many are maimed, and seriously injured.

They gain full control of school on handover night when SS3 students are now seen as external students or when they are writing their final exams.

At this point they begin to fish out the younger students who have been casting them at this point those who have been the harry-potter like myself are not left out of the brute punishment.

SS3- they are the lords of the school student environment.
Everybody is at their mercy. They invade junior hostels after lights out to severely drill (punish) students for no just cause.

I can’t remember the number of times that I would hear some senior boys scream “regional house run out” during ungodly hours only to be told to sing along to the popular song danfo drivers.

They simply walk around school punishing students, obtaining, and sabashing (beating) junior students for no reason.

They are known for staging fights amongst their set-ups, staging fights with SS2 students, invading and attacking staff quarters at night which results in student and staff children joining the melee and it usually lasts up to a month and also the ultimate one which is setting up a revenge attack and beatings of ex-students with self-manufactured and dangerous weapons who have come to do their clearance or to collect their statement of results/original waec certificate ( which usually ends with the police restoring law and order).

It is at this stage many morph into the post-secondary school gangs due to the fact that they see the need to continue their fight outside the confines of the school environment; progress to join the renowned fraternity and end up losing their lives or end up in high school (prison)

Fear is the highest form of respect-unknown

THE POST SECONDARY SCHOOL GANGS

Life after secondary school can be a very tricky one; tricky in the sense that many youths after leaving the four walls of secondary school see this as semi independence and want to take a break either by learning a trade or getting a job pending when they get admission into higher institutions but this is not the case of everyone.

There are some who don’t want to work or learn any hand work in question.
After I left secondary school life I was among those who were lucky enough to gain admission into one of the popular higher institutions in southern Nigeria but that’s story for another day.

Post primary school gangs as the name implies means gangs that are formed after secondary school education must have been completed. These gang are the ones you find loitering government primary school fields after school hours doing things ranging from gambling to smoking Indian hemp or looking for vulnerable people to pounce on and rob them of their valuables.

It is at this point one begins to ask how these gangs originate; the answer is unknown because they start as street gangs when one or two miscreants come together to form something they feel is different from the society and over time it progresses into something else that is now a nuisance to society.

At this point they begin to fly colours (branding of gang colours) and model themselves into their favourite cult groups.
They recruit members by blending (initiation through beating) in secluded uncompleted buildings, or at primary school buildings after school hours usually at night and then they go for overnight party.

These days it’s very common to see blended individuals lie to their people at home that they want to travel so that they can go for their initiation and after days they would come back with swollen faces and bruises only to lie to their parents/guardians/siblings and who ever care to listen that they were robbed or they got an accident.

Members are usually between the ages of 15-21 years.
Recently as 2 years ago in the streets of O sector of W district started invading U sector of U district in what was known as rolling (street robbery).

They carry out these operation usually in numbers ranging from 30-50 carrying weapons like daggers, knives, cutlass, and guns. How do they carry out their operations?
They send out scouts or spies to scan the areas every day for a week. Their function is to scan for escape routes.

Once the scouts are through with their mission these street gangs walk in 2s and 3s to converge usually at any church or beer parlour and within a flash operations have started.

These guys rob anything, anyone, and anywhere that crosses their path. They just rush towards an individual surrounding him placing daggers at their necks and robbing them of valuables.

In ten minutes these guys can rob as many as 100 people; resist at your own risk. Once the robbery is completed is completed they quickly escape on foot before any resistance is formed.

These gangs sell their goods at very very very cheap price; one could get a stolen iphone 5 for as low as 15k. And once the transaction is complete you see them at the nearest clubs, brothels, spending “their” money.

It took the combined efforts of neighbourhood vigilante groups who resort to lay ambush on these street gangs by luring them into traps and when as many as 5 are caught, 3 are lynched, 1 completely maimed and the last one handed over to security agents and if they are lucky enough, they would be released or killed extra judicially.

These were the only effort that has restored a little sanity to U sector and some minute parts of O sector though their activities are still very much present in O sector in W district; daylight robbery is very much at its peak periods.

Law enforcement have done nothing to curb this menace as one begin to wonder when will this end.

The eagle doesn’t hunt flies-unknown

THE COMMUNITY/INDIGENOUS GANG
As the name implies this set of gangs are usually restricted to their communities. From where I am from you can call them any of the following:
Community boys (or community)
Chichi
Fine boys
DC (disciplinary committee)
In Yoruba land I think they are called omonile and your guess is as good as mine. While the community have elders who rule over the affairs of the settlements. These set of people have their own government. They tag themselves as task force boys whom are appointed by their leader who is the task force chairman. Their ranks are listed as follows (the main focus here are Omonomo):
Grand chair.
Chair
Vice
Deputy vice
DC
Omonomo
The Omonomo as they are called are made up secondary school drop outs who without the orders of their superiors wander around town looking for anywhere construction sites are situated and halt whatever is going on there so they can be paid their deve (fees) so that construction can continue. They even collect deve fees from drivers all in the name of parking fees.

I wrote this article because the little things we ignore now tend to become a pain in the ass in the future. From the beginning of this article where gangs began forming at the tender age due to the lack of adequate parental upbringing turned these kids into mini monsters through secondary schooling till they become total nuisance to the public. Many are killed, sent to jail thus ending their lives when they are still in their prime. We should always try to watch over our children/siblings/ward so they don’t end up being a nuisance to the public. Thank you