robbers 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.
The Ikeja airport robbery gang with their box of
rifles and charms
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.
Felix Sunday… wasted his N90 million robbery
proceeds
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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