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attacked the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport, Ikeja.
They carted away N700 million from a bureau de
change operator. Each member, including the
informant, a cart pusher at the airport, got
N90million, an amount that could have turned
their lives around. But barely one year after that
operation, Felix Sunday, a.k.a. K-Money, a native
of Delta State became broke and went back to
robbery.
The 32 year old man, who is currently cooling off
at the Specail Anti-Robbery Sqaud, SARS, Ikeja,
narrated to Vanguard how he robbed with the
notorious Southwest robbery czar, Abiodun
Ogunjobi, a.k.a. Godogodo and how he lavished
his N90million share of the loot. Excerpts.
My name is Felix Sunday. I am a resident of Lagos
State and I was a commercial bus driver. I joined
my first robbery gang in 2009 and was the gang’s
driver. Members of my gang then were old men
and all of them are dead now.
They were killed in a robbery operation at Ajah
area, but before then, a member of my gang had
introduced me to Emmanuel Ehianeta, a.k.a. Arab,
who is also a notorious robber. After their death I
joined Arab and we began to operate together.
Arab specialized in car snatching and we stole
many cars at gun point. After each operation, he
usually gave the car to a man who would drive it
into Benin Republic to deliver to some of our
buyers.
We did that for some time before we had issues. I
stopped working with him because he was
cheating me. He usually gave me peanuts after
receiving proceeds from the cars we stole. I
relocated to Ondo State and formed a new gang.
There, I had Chiboy and Okey as members and we
specialized in house visiting. We robbed people of
their valuables each time we visited their homes.
We did that until 2011 when Chiboy was killed by
the police in Ondo State. I quickly moved out of
that state because the police were also looking for
me. I relocated to Oyo State, where I became a
commercial bus driver.
I vowed never to return to robbery and was
contented with what I was making. But there was
this man who usually sent me to the prison to
deliver some items to his younger brother who
was locked up there.
The man was paying me very well and I was
happy doing the job for him. However in one of
my numerous visits to the prison, I asked his
brother what brought him to the prison and he
said he was arrested for robbery, I felt sorry for
him and told him that I was also a robber but had
quit the job because it is dangerous.
He looked at me and laughed. Thereafter he
described me as a small time robber. He asked if I
could ignore a big job that could fetch me a
million naira. I thought about it for a while and
said, I would only do it if it would make me rich
and pull me out of poverty. He told me to be
patient adding that he would give my number to
someone who would link me to the job.
In January 2012, I got a call from a man who
identified himself as OJ and he explained that he
got my number from Destiny, the guy I had been
seeing in prison. OJ later told me that there was a
job for me at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, Lagos, and he would want
me to come to Computer Village in Lagos, to
meet other members of the gang.
When I got there I met Asiwaju, Atoba, Eso and OJ.
There OJ told me that they had concluded plans to
strike at the airport and the only thing they
needed then were rifles for the job. I told them not
to worry that I knew someone who could provide
us with some rifles.
I contacted one Ore, who used to be close to Arab
and asked him how to get a rifle. He told me that
Arab had two AK 47 rifles given to him in Benin
Republic by his receivers in exchange for some
cars. I called Arab. At first he was mad at me and
asked why I was calling. I told him of the job at
the airport that the foreign currencies were being
exported unguarded and all we needed was to
steal it. He doubted me but I managed to
convince him to meet other members of the gang
and he was taken to the airport and shown how
the monies were being exported.
By February of that year I, Atoba, Eso, Arab and
Asiwaju drove to the airport around 7:pm. I was
the one driving. I parked near the barbed wire and
waited in the car while four of them went into the
airport for the money. Arab and Eso held the Ak 47
rifles while Asiwaju held a pistol.
I was told that when they got to the spot where
the money was Arab shot sporadically into the air
to scare passersby and Atoba went straight for the
bags containing the money. In less then 10
minutes, they were through with the operation
and entered my vehicle with the money while I
drove off. We escaped through Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway and when we got to Ijebu-Ode we
entered into a bush to share the money.
Threat to kill everyone
Before then Arab had asked Eso and Asiwaju to
hand over the pistol and rifles to him so he could
keep them safe from the police. But when we
began to share the money Arab corked one of the
rifles and threatened to kill everyone. He said he
wanted to leave with the whole money but I
begged him not to do so and agreed that he
should take any amount he wanted as his share.
He then asked me to bring a bag and said I should
load the money into it until the bag was full and I
did so. After that he ordered us to share the
remaining money equally among ourselves
including the informant and the middle-man that
brought the job. I gave Eso, Asiwaju, Atoba and
myself N90million each and kept N45million for
the informant and another N45 million for OJ, who
was the middle-man.
Asiwaju offered to deliver the money to the
informant and the middle-man. We all went our
separate ways from there. The first thing I did was
to contact a lawyer to help me register a
company because I wanted to sell cars. The
lawyer took about N500, 000 from me and also
leased a land for me for about N1.6million which I
used as show room. I went to Benin Republic and
bought many cars which I kept in my show room. I
also bought many landed property at Ijebu-Ode.
Since I was a transporter, I decided to open a
transport company, I bought three Toyota Sienna
space buses and took them to Maza-
MazaMotorPark, where I wanted them to be used
for inter-state transportation. One of the Sienna
buses had an accident on it first journey and all
the passengers including the driver died in the
process.
Things were moving smoothly for me until the
police in Oyo State stumbled on the rifles we used
for the airport operation. They found it in the
home of a man Arab gave them to keep. The man
told the Oyo SARS operatives that I was very close
to Arab so they stormed Ijebu-Ode and they
started looking for me. They didn’t find it difficult
locating me because my sudden wealth and
business empires gave me out. They stormed my
home and looted all my property and they went to
my show room and took all the cars in it. I was left
with no other option than to run out of the state
and I relocated to Calabar, Cross River State. I
lived in Calabar for about three months but life in
that state was too expensive. My money was
dwindling seriously and the man who was
managing my transportation company stopped
remitting money to me, so I decided to come to
Lagos State. I went to Ikorodu, but I was very
scared.
I was moving from one hotel to the other and
spending too much money. A girl who was very
close to me became pregnant and I decided to
marry her. We didin’t even have a house of our
own then and I didn’t have enough money to rent
an apartment. Then I decided to sell the Toyota
Corolla I was using for N1.6million and bought a
Peugeot 406 for N400, 000. I used the balance to
rent an apartment and furnished it. I became
almost broke at that time, and then started
working my phones, calling other members of my
gang to ask if there was any job.
Luckily I was told that plans were on ground to rob
a bank in Osun State and what they were working
on was to pick a suitable date for the job. But on
December 18, 2012, Asiwaju asked me to meet
him at Ijebu-Ode, from where we proceeded to
the bank.
My gang wasn’t the only one that was involved in
that operation. Paul, an Igbo boy was also leading
a gang of Igbo boys from the south east. As usual I
drove my gang to the scene and we succeeded in
that operation. We carted away a huge sum of
money from the bank .
Since the number of men involved in that job was
much, I was given just N200,000 and I took it
home to my family. By January 2013, Asiwaju,
called again to say there was a job in Kwara State
and the operation was being coordinated by
Godogodo.
We struck at two banks in that state and I got
about N500,000 as my share and life began to
become normal for me again. Godogodo also
brought a bullion van job for us again at Ijebu-ode
and we succeeded in carting away all the money
in the bullion van which included foreign
currencies. My share in that job was N150,000.
Godogodo and other big time robbers like Paul,
Odun and others took the larger share of it. But in
March 2013, Asiwaju who had three Ak47 rifles
then called a meeting of all members of the gang
and said we have to rob the airport again. This
time we sidelined the Alhaji and OJ, and went to
the MMIA ourselves to survey how the money was
being moved.
Movements of the money
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, we struck at the
airport, but before we got there we encountered a
little traffic on our away. Two members of our
gang who we had stationed earlier to monitor the
movements of the money called us and said the
money was already moving and by the time we
arrived at the airport, the money had been moved
from the car park into the departure lounge of the
airport. We shot sporadically into the air to cause
panic and distraction but some policemen who
were at the airport to escort some expatriates
shot at us and they killed Eso.
But Asiwaju, Atoba faced them, rained bullets and
killed two of them. Before we knew what was
happening the money had moved beyond our
reach. We couldn’t do anything, we descended on
the bureau de change operators at the airport and
we carted away the sum of N10 million.
That operation turned out to be my last. I went
home to my family but one week later I got a call
from a member of our gang, a Pastor, who
prepared the charms and oath we took before the
operation. He said that he needed to see me for a
job. I didn’t know that he was with the police and
when I came out to see him, I was arrested. I
regret getting back to armed robbery and would
have stuck to my vows.”
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