I Started Robbery At 7, Wanted To Be As Popular As Oyenusi, Shina Rambo ― 27-yr-old Suspect

Gbenga Kikiowo, a 27-year-old notorious armed robber, was arrested by detectives in the Ondo State Police Command. He confessed that he began committing crimes at the age of seven and wanted to be more popular than Ishola Oyenusi and Shina Rambo.

Kikiowo told journalists that he had operated in Ghana and had been remanded three times when he was paraded by the Ondo State Police Command in Akure, the state capital, alongside 14 other criminals.

Kikiowo and one Aladeloye Tope, 25, were detained at Oke-Aro, Akure metropolis, on May 24, 2021, at around 2100 hours, while planning to carry out a robbery operation in Akure city, according to state police commissioner Bolaji Salami.

According to Salami, police investigators apprehended the two based on an intelligence report, and “the suspects have confessed to having been involved in other robbery activities within and around Ondo State.” One pump action gun was discovered.”

Kikiowo told reporters that he began robbery at the age of seven in his birthplace of Igbara-Oke, in the state’s lfedore council region, and that he had been imprisoned three times.

Speaking on how police detectives apprehended him, Kikiowo said, “I called my partner in crime and informed him that I had a gun with me but it had no bullet so he told me to bring the gun to Akure from lfe which I did but I was arrested by the Scorpion Squad of the police on my way to get the cartridge.