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Francon:
Ok. They will always defend themselves... but come to think of it, you divorced twice? How do you think this one will work? It shows the high rate of irresponsibility on most celebs. I was trained by my mum that when something is broken, fix it and don't get a new one.

She divorced once,her first husband Jaiye died,get your facts right

I don't believe a General, in the nigerian army wrote this.As a general, there are other channels and means he could have used in channeling the fraustrations of the troops in the north east without making it public,and exposing himself thereby jeopardising his career.two, the article is filled with a lot of grammatical errors.now, I do not dispute the fact that this story may be true, its likely written by a junior officer.

alaladakosta:
Bad, more reason why we need buhari

what would buhari do? Is he going to be the coas?

Maccoy1:
after all the atrocities on BBA...

Abeg which atrocities are u talking about?

SisterCaro:
If she wanted a good husband she should have married a yoruba man.

You get sense so? What has being a yoruba man got to do with having a successful marriage? Abi, yoruba people no dey divorce?

mencade5:
may God start striking people thunder in the church for desecrating his place of worship with frivolities.....amen

my guy, there is nothing wrong in loving someone and God is not the way u think he is

Globe trotters, Super ted, speed racer, captain cave man, fantastic four,

abbeyoye2001:
Op! Pls learn how to summarize ur "article" this not news again, but story for the gods

the story is not his own.he just gave the story as it is originally to avoid plagiarism. And u kids of these days should be patient enough to read and acquire knowledge. It would help u

What is wrong what he said? Some of you just dont think but have a mindset about certain and are judgemental towards them.read the story again and tell me ayo oritsejafor said wrong?

pendy79:
When will this man learn to keep his trap shut n continue to feed fat from the fountain of political patronage of PDP and GEJ.

How many fatwas have been given against ISIS in the middleast, how many public broadcast and messages has eminent Islamic jurists given to adherent to the stupid and non scriptural acts of Boko Haram? If the first instruction of Angel Jubril to the the prophet of Islam was IQRA(read) where will BH now say it got its own version of Education being forbidden.

Guess the day SHAME was shared in the heavens, pastor bling bling wasn't at home. He keeps spewing rubbish Everytime he talks. Shiek Jaffar was killed for preaching against their ideology, shiek gunmi escaped a suicide bombing attack, many eminent scholars killed in cold blood all because they countered the sentiment and belief of boko haram.

He should leave serious matters of state security to wise counsels and continue in his gun running or money laundering private jet kabukabu biz.

I had a similar at the national hospital, abuja.in their case its actually N10, 000.every patient who comes to national hospital on admission, is made to pay this sum to cover handgloves, bleach and other stuffs.it is aactually a problem because the government actually budgeted for these things the hospital is making people pay for.and if u don't pay they wont attend to your loved one

This omotola get sense so?

For a graduate,your write up is poor.It is filled with a lot of errors.Try and improve yourself,to know when to use present or past tense.

ogawisdom:
This thread is motivated by the thread where a lecturer who ran to the police station after killing 5 pupil while trying to dodge a trailer was brought out from the police station and killed by angry mobs . What did this man do wrong for God's sake it's an accident.

Now in this thread I want us to discuss d correct thing to b done if one finds himself in this situation as a Nigerian driver to avoid being killed like the lecturer above while showing some care for d one u hit ie assuming he/she is still alive n needs medical attention.

Ultimately drop one or two hints on how to avoid finding one's self in this situation.

Let's see what works in naija, though our diaspora bro and sis are welcomed.

My observation is that the driver is always wrong even if the person is practically lying down on the road. The driver is always accused of over speeding by everyone around even though the person hit was careless.

To avoid this situation as a driver I pay special attention to all road users while driving especially pedestrians; the most vulnerable are children, mad people, drunk people, agboro people, frustrated people looking for who to kill them, rioters, church crusade groups, other groups on the road to advertise something, and elderly ppl (their sense of judgement on the road is very poor and sometimes they are unaware they are on the road.

my advice to you and anyone who happens to be in this situation is to run.do not wait.run and report to the nearest police station.if you stay it would be at your own peril,as the mob will kill you.people who have stopped to help people who they hit while driving never survived it,as the mob that gathered after the accident lynched such people.Nigeria is not a country where you stop to help someone you hit,just run and make a report at the nearest police station.

Poster, you are a pervert? Cradle snatchers like you should be in prison and sodomised everyday of their life till they die.

ayusco85:
Well if u close ur legs wen u were a spinster u won't ve problem getting pregnant wen ur married. U can't eat ur cake and ve it....

my guy how did u arrive at that?have u not heard about women born without womb?or virgins that can't get pregnant?or women that had as much as 10 abortion but are still fertile to have children?you have reached a conclusion with limited knowledge of this particular subject matter.I would suggest you carry out a little research so you won't make the mistake of fallacy of hasty generalisation again.

chijoy7:
All I see is fat nothing more

can we see your pic,so we can compare with hers to see who is hotter?

What is wrong with your number? It's saying your number does not exist.

Airforce1:
Genevieve and tiwa savage are not on the same league

Genny is way way above tiwa's league

Compare tiwa to someone of her class
Somebody like funke akindele or eniola bedmus

airforce1,your bad mouth too much?

finsulyman:
Even though boko haram is an evil sect, they're more honest than the government and media.

You are one of those sympathetic to the cause of boko haram.you will soon be exposed

Wait a second,is this not the same Cameroonian vice presidents wife that was said to have been rescued by the Cameroonian military?well we should be wary of news coming from cameroun.you know,I kept wondering why some news media seemed to give us reports of Cameroonian soldiers killing and capturing boko haram terrorist but the nigerian armed were loosing daily?I now know they were all lies and cheap propaganda to incite nigerians against the army.

A good history lesson about Lawrence 'the Law' Anini, alias Ovbigbo, the most Notorious armed robber in Nigeria's history! Please Read for your pleasure to refreshing your memory..

How notorious robbery kingpin, Lawrence Anini terrorised Benin


Lawrence Nomanyagbon Anini, Nigeria’s acclaimed most notorious armed robber, was born sometimes in 1960. He terrorised the old Bendel State, especially its capital, Benin City in the 1980s, but in 1986, his robbery exploits reached a terrific level that it became a national issue. He operated along with his lieutenant, Monday Osunbor, and others. However, one striking feature in the Anini reign of terror was the police complicity. It was soon discovered that the Anini gang had insiders within the police hierarchy of which George Iyamu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, was their arrowhead.

Anini, dreadfully called ‘The Law’ or ‘Ovbigbo’, was born in a village about 20 miles from Benin City. He migrated to Benin at an early age, learned to drive and became a skilled taxi driver in a few years. He became known in Benin motor parks as a man who could control the varied competing interest among motor park touts and operators. He later resorted to criminal acts in the city and soon became a driver and transporter for gangs, criminal godfathers and thieves. Later on, he decided to create his own gang and they started out as car hijackers, bus robbers and bank thieves. Gradually, he extended his criminal acts to other towns and cities far north and east of Benin.

The complicity of the police is believed to have triggered Anini’s reign of terror in 1986. In early 1986, two members of his gang were tried and prosecuted against an earlier under-the-table ‘agreement’ with the police to destroy evidence against the gang members. The incident, and Anini’s view of police betrayal, is believed to have spurred retaliatory actions by Anini. In August, 1986, a fatal bank robbery linked to Anini was reported in which a police officer and others were killed. That same month, two officers on duty were shot at a barricade while trying to stop Anini’s car. During a span of three months, he was known to have killed nine police officers.

Anini’s exploits

In an operation in August of 1986, the Anini team struck at First Bank, Sabongida-Ora, where they carted away N2, 000. But although the amount stolen was seen as chicken feed, they left the scene with a trail of blood. Many persons were killed.

On September 6, same year, the Anini gang snatched a Peugeot 504 car from Albert Otoe, the driver of an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Christopher Omeben. In snatching the car, they killed the driver and went to hide his corpse somewhere. It was not until three months later that the skeleton of the driver was spotted 16 kilometers away from Benin, along the Benin-Agbor highway. A day after this attack, Anini, operating in a Passat car believed to have been stolen, also effected the snatching of another Peugeot 504 car near the former FEDECO office, in Benin.

Two days after, the Anini men killed two policemen in Orhiowon Local Government of the state. Still in that month, three different robbery attacks, all pointing to Anini’s involvement, took place. They include the murder of Frank Unoarumi, a former employee of the Nigerian Observer newspapers; the killing of Mrs. Remi Sobanjo, a chartered accountant, and the stealing of the Mercedes Benz car in Benin, of the Ughelli monarch, the Ovie.

Before September, 1986 drew to a close, Anini, now steaming hot and an elusive dread, struck at a gas station along Wire Road, Benin, where he stole a substantial part of the day’s sales. He shot the Station’s attendant and gleefully started spraying his booty along the road for people to pick.

The height of Anini’s exploits, however, took place on October 1, 1986, the Independence Day when the state’s Commissioner of Police, Casmir Igbokwe was ambushed by the gang in Benin, and nearly yanked off his nose in a hail of bullets. The police boss survived the attacks with serious injuries. Earlier that day also, the Anini men had gunned down a police man within the city

Also, on October 21 of same year, the Anini robbery gang terminated the life of a Benin-based medical doctor, A.O Emojeve when they gunned him down along Textile Mill Road, in Benin. Not done, Anini and gang went and robbed the Agbor branch of African Continental Bank and carted away about N46, 000. A day after the operation, Anini, The Law, turned to a ‘Father Christmas’ as he strew wads of naira notes on the ground for free pick by market men and women at a village near Benin.

Anini’s image thus loomed larger than life, dwarfing those of Ishola Oyenusi, the king of robbers in the 1970s and Youpelle Dakuro, the army deserter who masterminded the most vicious daylight robbery in Lagos in 1978, in which two policemen were killed. Anini thus spear-headed a four-month reign of terror between August and December 1986. Anini also reportedly wrote numerous letters to media houses using political tones of Robin Hood-like words, to describe his criminal acts.

My friend, where is Anini?

Worried by the seeming elusiveness of Anini and his gang members, the military President, General Ibrahim Babangida then ordered a massive manhunt for the kingpin and his fellow robbers. The police thus went after them, combing every part of Bendel State where they were reportedly operating and living. The whole nation was gripped with fear of the robbers and their daredevil exploits.

However, Police manhunt failed to stop their activities; the more they were hunted, the more intensified their activities became.

Some of the locals in the area even began to tell stories of their invincibility and for a while, it felt like they were never going to be caught.

However, at the conclusion of a meeting of the Armed Forces Ruling Council in October 1986, General Babangida turned to the Inspector- General of Police, Etim Inyang, and asked, ‘My friend, where is Anini?’.

At about this time, Nigerian newspapers and journals were also publishing various reports and editorials on the ‘Anini Challenge’, the ‘Anini Saga’, the ‘Anini Factor’, ‘Lawrence Anini – the Man, the Myth’, ‘Anini, Jack the Ripper’, and ‘Lawrence Anini: A Robin Hood in Bendel’. The Guardian asked, emphatically, in one of its reports: ‘Will they ever find Anini, “The Law”?’.

His arrest

Finally, it took the courage of Superintendent of Police, Kayode Uanreroro to bring the Anini reign of terror to an end. On December 3, 1986, Uanreroro caught Anini at No 26, Oyemwosa Street, opposite Iguodala Primary School, Benin City, in company with six women. Acting on a tip-off from the locals, the policeman went straight to the house where Anini was hiding and apprehended him with very little resistance. Uanreroro led a crack 10-man team to the house, knocked on the door of the room, and Anini himself, clad in underpants, opened the door. “Where is Anini,” the police officer quickly enquired.

Dazed as he was caught off guard and having no escape route, Anini all the same tried to be smart. “Oh, Anini is under the bed in the inner room”. As he said it, he made some moves to walk past Uanreroro and his team. In the process, he shoved and head-butted the police officer but it was an exercise in futility.

Uanreroro promptly reached for his gun, stepped hard on Anini’s right toes and shot at his left ankle. Anini surged forward but the policemen took hold of him and put him in a sitting position. They then pumped more bullets into his shot leg and almost severed the ankle from his entire leg. Already, anguished by the excruciating pains, the policemen asked him, “Are you Anini?” And he replied, “My brother, I won’t deceive you; I won’t tell you lie, I’m Anini.”

He was from there taken to the police command headquarters where the state’s Police Commissioner, Parry Osayande, was waiting. While in the police net, Anini who had poor command of English and could only communicate in pidgin, made a whole lot of revelations. He disclosed, for instance that Osunbor, who had been arrested earlier, was his deputy, saying that Osunbor actually shot and wounded the former police boss of the state, Akagbosu

Anini was shot in the leg, transferred to a military hospital, and had one of his legs amputated. That was after Monday Osunbor was also captured.

When Anini’s hideout was searched, police recovered assorted charms, including the one he usually wore around his waist during “operations”.

It was instructive that after Anini was captured and dispossessed of his charms, the man who terrorised a whole state and who was supposed to be fearless suddenly became remorseful, making confessions. This was against public expectation of a daredevil hoodlum who would remain defiant to the very end.

Revelations on Iyamu, others

Shortly after the arrest of Anini and co, the dare-devil robbers began to squeal, revealing the roles played by key police officers and men, in the aid ing and abetting of criminals in Bendel State and the entire country. Anini particularly revealed that Iyamu, who was the most senior police officer shielding the robbers, would reveal police secrets to them and then, give them logistic supports such as arms, to carry out robbery operations.

He further revealed that Iyamu, after each operation, would join them in sharing the loot. It was further exposed how Iyamu planned to kill Christopher Omeben, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Intelligence and Investigation. But Iyamu was later to be disappointed as the assailants dispatched to eliminate Omeben were only able to kill his driver, Otue, a sergeant.

Iyamu, whom the robbers fondly referred to as ‘Baba’, reportedly had choice buildings in Benin City; being how he invested the loots he obtained from men of the underworld

Trial and execution

Due to amputation of his leg, Anini was confined to a wheelchair throughout his trial. Iyamu, on his part, denied ever knowing and collaborating with Anini, but Anini The Law furiously retorted, “You are a shameless liar!” Anini had accused him before Justice James Omo-Agege in the High Court of Justice, off Sapele Road in Benin City. Of the 10 police officers Anini implicated, five were convicted. The robbery suspects, including Iyamu, were sentenced to death.

But in passing his judgement, Justice Omo-Agege remarked, “Anini will forever be remembered in the history of crime in this country, but it would be of unblessed memory. Few people if ever, would give the name to their children.” Their execution took place on March 29, 1987.

LAWRENCE ANINI, Nigeria’s Most Notorious Armed Robber
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1Introduction2Birth & Early Days3Growing Up4The Days of Armed Robbery5Monday Osunbor, His Twin6His Capture7Anini's Trial8Interesting Things About Anini9Execution10Credits‹›

NB: For those who missed the story on ‘Doctor’ Ishola Oyenusi, the most notorious armed robber in Nigeria who reigned before Anini, CLICK HERE to enjoy. Continue below for Anini’s story. Thank you and have a wonderful time with it.


THE FACE OF TERROR: LAWRENCE ANINI, Nigeria’s most notorious armed robber on the hospital bed after he was badly injured following his capture in December, 1986. PICTURE CREDITS: NATIONAL MIRROR.
On the 23rd of August 1986, something bizarre happened in Bendel State, Nigeria. A prince of the Benin royal family, Kingsley Eweka, was bundled to the Ikpoba Hill (Ekenwan Road) firing range. A Bini prince and an aristocrat by birth and virtue of belonging to one of Africa’s oldest and most revered monarchies, Kingsley was however not accorded any honour that fateful day. As a matter of fact, he had just been condemned and sentenced to death by a court of law for armed robbery and he was manacled like a petty criminal that he was. At a time when the law was really blind, the prince was lined up and in a matter of minutes, he was fired and joined his ancestors. But something very interesting happened shortly before he was killed.

Prince Eweka took a good look at his executioners, struggling to turn his neck as his body was firmly tied to the stake. They also looked back at the condemned criminal and cast furtive and somewhat puzzled glances at themselves. Then they asked him if he had anything to say. An embittered Eweka was overtaken with rage and he thundered:

‘My friend and his boys will avenge my death!’

But the executioners, who did not know those Eweka was ranting about, thought it was just the paranoid prattle of a man facing a sure death. They thought Prince Eweka was just delusional and were not even interested in any friend of his, if indeed he had any. Theirs was to escort him to the border between this world and the next. The executioners let out warm smiles that slipped out of their vengeful cheeks and in a matter of minutes, Kingsley Eweka was history, to explain himself before the gods. But the prince was not blabbing. The whole of Nigeria would soon hear of his ‘friend and his boys’. And it was indeed a very bloody revenge.

Prince Eweka and other suspects were arraigned before the Armed Robbery and Firearms Tribunal. With his fellow partners in crime, they paid the ultimate price.

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The year 1986. October was the month. The iron-fisted military junta of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was rattled by a 26-year-old man who could not even speak a single sentence in English, not to talk of write a line of grammar. The gap-toothed Nigerian military president was furious and he summoned his highest-ranking police chiefs.

Some hundreds of kilometers away from the cosy and secured chambers of IBB’s Armed Forces Revolutionary Council where the high-powered meeting was going on, in the ancient city of Benin, everyone was bathed in fear and it was very palpable Bendel State lived under the dark blanket of sheer terror spread by this young man who spoke only Pidgin English and his local dialect . Everything was tried to capture this elusive figure but nothing worked and he continued to unleash unspeakable horror upon the defenceless citizens.

The people of Benin felt they had had enough. One fateful day, women leaders of various markets all over Benin trooped to the Oba of Benin’s palace and pleaded with him to use his powers to consult with the spirits and stop the dark rains of Anini. At a point, the monarch had to go on radio to appeal to the gangsters to let peace reign in Benin. Anini respected the crown and went underground with his gang for a while only to resurface with renewed vigour.

The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Erediauwa I, was visibly disturbed as his people were mercilessly slaughtered, killed, raped, robbed and maimed by a young desperado that everyone, including the government, feared. Being a monarch who would never fold his arms and leave his people to be terrorized, the highly-revered Oba called a meeting with his council of traditional chiefs. The Oba then ordered all his Bini subjects to make supplications to the gods for the reign this young man to end. The Oba also called on the security agencies to try their best to fish out the brains behind the dastardly acts threatening to turn pristine Benin into something else.

Benin Kingdom is one of the most legendary in Africa and not even in its thousands of years of existence was it so menacingly disturbed by a single bandit. A curfew from 10pm till dawn was imposed on the whole state because of one man. He was an armed robber but they called him ‘The Governor’. When people mentioned the Governor of Bendel State, they would ask you:

Anini or Inienger?

Inienger, a colonel in the Nigerian Army was the governor of the state. But wait a minute, who was Lawrence Nomayangbon (also spelt as Nomayanukpon) Anini, aka Anini the Law and why was he feared to the extent that IBB had to personally demand for his capture during a meeting of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), the nation’s highest decision making body in October 1986? IBB faced his Inspector-General of Police, Etim Inyang and the Commander-in-Chief blurted out:

‘My friend, where is Anini?’

A challenged Inyang replied:

‘We shall find him soon.’

But Inyang never did. His retirement from service came in November 1986 (his retirement notice was previously announced in October 1986 and it is still not clear whether his retirement was mandatory or voluntary) and the lot fell of the next IGP, Mohammed Gambo Jimeta who told journalists upon becoming the new police top boss on the 1st November, 1986:

‘I would catch Anini very soon.’

The nation would later get the answer in the most dramatic fashion. Dearest Reader, welcomes you to the underworld, the den of the smoking guns, of the racing bullets, the world of the legendary and almost mythical Anini alias The Law, alias The Governor, alias Ovbiudu (the Lion-Hearted), alias Robin Hood of Africa, alias The Unbeatable, alias The Robber’s Robber, the man who would later etch his name in ugly and scrawly black ink in history as Nigeria’s most notorious armed robber. But who was this thief whom many believed could vanish into the thin air using the dark forces of magic?

Babangida had been thorougly embarrassed by the Anini saga and he was even taunted by the BBC that as the military president, he held sway over all the 17 out of the 19 states of the Federation with the exception of two strategic ones: Lagos and Bendel which were ruled by criminals. In one year in the 1980s, from January to July, Lagos alone witnessed 208 violent crimes. IBB’s clenched fist was understandable. Anini was the latest target. The Daily Times (8th December, 1986) fired back at the BBC following Anini’s capture:

‘President Babangida controlled 17 states while while Anini Suzerainty held sway in the remaining two states, Bendel and Lagos. The grievous implication of BBC’s scathing news items was that Nigeria was a country where security of life and property could not be assured and that the atmosphere was not fertile for foreign investment. No thanks to the dastardly acts of a mean criminal called Anini. The BBC should swallow its words.’


1Introduction2Birth & Early Days3Growing Up4The Days of Armed Robbery5Monday Osunbor, His Twin6His Capture7Anini's Trial8Interesting Things About Anini9Execution10Credits‹›
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Ogundoro john eniola December 14, 2013 Reply “let the evil ones desist from their ways”.

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sola olorunda December 22, 2013 Reply Unemployment is one of the comment of Lawrence Anini,he was guity of armed robbery & also executed.but to what extent is nigeria leaders tackle this problem.lt is all about selfish interest,not thinking they will die one day,even those that claimed they had spoke with God had died,why not u!.no wonder,u have been deceived by ur religion belief that,whatever u do,u will be forgiving,shameless people.u will pay for what u sow.take or leave it.

. Nse Rebecca August 22, 2014 Reply Sola, Anini was a greedy young man. If you read he story from the beginning you will know what i am saying. He never wanted to go to school, learn mechanic (he went there to steal), he was used as a political thug, he wanted more money. When you are educated and you have the fear of God in you, you will never allow yourself to be used as a thug. Knowing God first is the door and Education is the key

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wumi January 10, 2014 Reply March 29, 1987

. wumi January 10, 2014 Reply March 27, 1987

. zaynnnnab January 10, 2014 Reply 27th of March, 1987

. Ann Ogolo January 10, 2014 Reply 27th of March, 1987 at 11.05 am

. Kefas June 21, 2014 Reply Am suprising the story

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IZ October 9, 2014 Reply The location is not ikpoba hill is Asoro hill ekenwan road .thrs no firing range at that time in ikpoba hill and ikpoba hill is not in ekenwan road.anini was not after harmless citizens he was after the police. It was a police officer who was supplying them aminations and giving them information about the police, that was killing innocent citizens to cover thr stracks claiming they are the once responsible for the criminal act.anini killed a lot of police, and steals. i can remenbr then wen he steals he pass through the market and trows money to them…he was a terror but was strenghten by people that was suppose to protect us#the police#corrupt nigeria.

. Femi oshodi October 9, 2014 Reply Sadly.this write up, missed many facts, the like of inspector Irowa Dsp Iyamu the failed attempt to assassinate a police commissioner, that resulted in the death of his driver. coupled with the death and maiming of innocent youths of which I am a victim of this systematic brutality in allawless nation under the veil of a corrupt Nigeria police force,while Dsp Iyamu was executed along with Anini, the rest officers are walking freely in Holland is Irowa,around him are those they maimed without justice or inquiries of this inhuman act.

. joy October 9, 2014 Reply people called Lawrence are very wicked, they have no human sympathy

. IT October 10, 2014 Reply @ I Z,thanks for that correction I remember the story so well on one occasion I was @ d mkt wen they drove pass shouting into the air nd throwing money to mkt women.any one sponsoring Boko Haram now shall end up like Insp.Iyamu their arms supplier

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Lawrence Nomanyagbon Anini (c. 1960 – March 29, 1987) [1] was a Nigerian bandit who terrorised Benin City in the 1980s along with his sidekick Monday Osunbor. He was captured and executed for his crimes.

Life[edit]Anini was born in a village about 20 miles from Benin City in present day Edo State. He migrated to Benin at an early age, learned to drive and became a skilled taxi driver. He became known in Benin motor parks as a man who could control the varied competing interests among motor park touts and operators. He later dived into the criminal business in the city and soon became a driver and transporter for gangs, criminal godfathers and thieves. Later on, he decided to create his own gang which include, Monday Osunbor, Ofege, and others, and they started out as car hijackers, bus robbers and bank thieves. Gradually, he extended his criminal acts to other towns and cities far north and east of Benin.

The complicity of the police is believed to have triggered Anini's reign of terror in 1986. In early 1986, two members of his gang called Kingsley alias Baba K and Kele were tried and prosecuted against an earlier under-the-table bribe induced agreement with the police to destroy evidence against the gang members. The incident, and Anini's view of police betrayal, is believed to have spurred retaliatory actions by Anini. On August, 1986, a fatal bank robbery linked to Anini was reported in which a police officer and a child were killed. That same month, two officers on duty were shot at a barricade while trying to stop Anini's car. During a span of three months, he was known to have killed 9 police officers. He wrote numerous letters to media houses using political tones of Robin Hood-like words to describe his criminal acts. Anini was once believed to be a spirit in possession of magical powers it was also believed that he could appear and disappear at will. On December 3, 1986, he was caught at a house in Benin City between 2nd and 3rd East Circular Road in the company of a girl friend. Anini was shot in the leg, transferred to a military hospital several days after he was shot in the leg, and had one of his legs amputated.[2] The country's military leader, Ibrahim Babangida, demanded a speedy trial. Anini was convicted of most of his charges and was executed on March 29, 1987.,[1] also his friend Monday osunbor, Ofege and other members of his gang, were sentenced to death. Some senior police officers were also sentence to death in connection with the gang members activities because they were the one supplying then arms and ammunitions most notable of these officers was Asp George Iyamu.

References[edit]1.^ Jump up to: a b P E Igbinovia (Spring 1988). "Wound Ballistics, Reasonable Force and Anini's Incapacitation". International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 12 (1): 131–135. doi:10.1080/01924036.1988.9688886.
2.Jump up ^ Film of the execution broadcast by BBS TV Benin Channel 55
Marenin, Otwin (June 1987). "The Anini Saga: Armed Robbery and the Reproduction of Ideology in Nigeria". The Journal of Modern African Studies 25 (2): 259–281. doi:10.1017/S0022278X00000380. JSTOR 161014.

johnmartus: please what is your own? you are just crying across the nairaland while cheif tinubu is enjoying his life withbeverage. you are criticism jagaba what of your kinsmen that looting public fund evereday so what do you want to call them?

eTHNIC CHAUVANIST,NOW THAT IT IS tINUBU YOU SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH IT BUT IF IT WERE SOMEBODY FROM ANOTHER PART OF THE COUNTRY ALL HELL WOULD HAVE BEEN LET LOOSE

IF u compare this picture side by side with the death picture.The dirty shekau seems to be the one that was killed

Nuvally: The problem with us is that we clearly lack knowledge. This man is a Barrister. You think he can impeach his deputy without a tangible reason? Go and read the constitution. The former deputy Gov was accused of misconduct. And the poultry farm saga happens to be one of them. So u guys think Chime is a fool? I urge u all to go and read the constitution, and then re-read the allegations that was levelled against the former deputy, and come back here and tell me what u made of it. Let's last Reading ve®y well. Not watching 'Epl' & 'Kim K'. Some North and south mofos talking like they know shit. Read the constitution and stop making a fool out urself. Am tired of seeing Useless and non-chalant comments here.

Emenike bought a land in Enugu for half the price of what the land is cost. And the gov had no knowledge of the transaction, he had to stop work from commencing. Emenike should go to the Gov and sought things out. Just because u play football doesn't mean u go dey PASS everybody for the pitch of intellectual. You dont need to attach antenna to decimals.....to make ur "POINTS CLEAR" to people. Tell us how u bought the land. If you throw a "punch" at ur Gov..you are a rude "Vendor" mind what u say

Nuvally does running a poultry frm constitute misconduct?