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Notorious ex-armed robber Shina Rambo:

How I tormented Lagosians, Police
By Sina Fadare
Source:NATIONAL MIRROR
Shina Rambo was a household name in the
world of crime - fearful, ruthless, dangerous
and a terror in the society. The former
kingpin and a serpent to security agencies is
now a professed Evangelist and maverick
preacher who is as meek as a dove. In this
encounter with Sina Fadare, he poured out his
mind on how he tormented Lagosians, the
police and how he snatched 42 exotic cars in
a day and how he remained invisible for the
police dragnet.
What’s your background and where are you
actually from?
It is true that people are always confused
about where l come from. Actually my father
came from Abeokuta in Ogun State, but I
from Sanbogida-Ora in Edo State. That is
where my mother came from and where l
lived all my early life.
How did you acquire the name Sina Rambo?
There is a saying in Yoruba that a child
acquires any name that suits him when he
was not in his place of birth. That was the
appellation l was given in those days when l
ventured into the world of crime. The name
that was given to me at birth was Omokenwa,
meaning a child is the one that takes care of
the home. The meaning of Sina Rambo stands
for a team or a group of deadly squad with a
mission. I was the Rambo. Therefore, the
merging of Shina with Rambo is just like any
organisation like cooperative society which
has each name to identify their group, yet
they belong to the same cooperative society.
To those people who thought that l came from
Cotonou, Republic of Benin, or Sabongida-
Ora, they are all correct because wherever
you are living or place you are used to, that is
your home. Though my father is from
Abeokuta, many people did not know me
there because apart from Cotonou where my
operating business took me, l lived my
adolescent life in Edo State, the place of my
mother.
At what point in your life did you veer into
crime?
Everything comes down to the lackadaisical
attitude of my parents in taking adequate care
of my need when l was growing up. My father
was a military man who married virtually
everywhere he was posted to in his career;
this gave him the opportunity to have many
wives. One of the early memories l could
recollect which l will never forget in my life
was that my father was the first person to cut
me with a cutlass. That is why l said that the
nonchalant attitude of my parents dragged me
into the world of crime.
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Was that actually what led you into crime?
I will say that the moment a child lacks
parental care, love and attention, such a child
is being nursed towards crime. In my own
case it was a combination of many things that
led me to the world of crime. Poor and not
caring family, later my business was almost
grinded when some of my goods were
confiscated. Along the line, my younger
brother was also killed; in the mission of
avenging l was gradually involved in crime
and before l knew it l wanted to excel in it.
What we called the real Shina Rambo lives
inside.
Your name created tremor among people in
society, the security operatives inclusive,
how did you get such power?
If a child knows how to wash his hand well,
definitely he will eat with the elders. I know
how to appease the elders, therefore anything
l need from them l usually get it. Now that l
am in Christ, l know better. The fact is if you
decide to eat with the devil, make sure you do
it to a logical conclusion and if you want to
follow Christ, let him be your sole companion
in anything that you are doing. I got power in
the world of devil, and l followed it to a logical
conclusion. In the world of the devil, police or
any security has nothing to do with us, as a
daredevil robber then. There are certain
things which an armed robber should have.
The first is what you call afoola. We used
many human beings to do this native
medicine, including a foetus in his mother’s
womb. The second is ikiya (boldness).
This will give you the audacity and effrontery
to do anything at any time no matter how
dangerous the venture is. The third one is
that anybody who wants to venture into
highlevel robbery must be ready to squeeze
all the water inside his eye and use it for a
powerful medicine, so that there is nothing
that would happen that such a person will cry
again, no matter how devastating or big such
a calamity is. I searched for power from the
demons of various types, inside the most
powerful water called water of the world at a
town called Ogoja. All leaders of the world
who are actually looking for power used to go
inside this water. At that point when I was on
operation l will put on the appearance of
different types of people to the extent that it
was difficult for anybody to identify my real
being. There is no amount of picture that you
took that you will get a clear view. That was
why when they said that, ‘Oh! they have killed
Shina Rambo,’ but it was another person that
they would kill instead. From that place, l
went to Oke Idanre and later Enugu and
Abeokuta to look for power that can make me
to be invisible at will.
I was able to have a magical power that
allowed me to look differently in eight places.
At Abeokuta, the nine herbalists that did the
medicine for me were killed so that one day
they will not reveal the secret behind the
medicine to any mortal. There is a place in
Oyo State called Fiditi; lawyers also go there
to look for power. Along the line l entered into
different cults that are very powerful. There
they have to change my body because l was
buried alive for seven days in the burial
ground and my soul was kept in a small
coffin. After the seventh day, l became
powerful and more dangerous, too hot to be
handled by anybody. Again l went inside the
Iroko tree to seek for power. In fact, you will
not believe the number of houses that you will
find inside the Iroko tree, its a whole town
inside the tree. When you get there, you are
going to chant some incantations and the
door will open, you will see various types of
people engaging in activities like selling,
eating, having meeting and doing all sorts of
things done in the physical world. When l
went there, we entered through the ninth door
before we entered the town. I was able to do
this because l was able to produce for the
elders what they needed, so they were ready
to give me what l wanted and ready to take
me to wherever it would be possible for me to
get what l wanted. There was a time l was
taken to a burial place with 15 heads to go
and to collect some charms from the spirit.
From there, l was fortified to the extent that
there is no bullet that could enter my body, it
will just be like pure water.
What is your relationship with the police?
Normally we and the police are supposed to
be enemies, but unfortunately a lot of them
are our friends. There are some policemen
who are mere saboteurs; they love money
more than the job. Such police officers are
mole in the force because they sell vital
information to robbers and most of the time
turned their back when their “friends” are on
the road. At this point in time, it is people like
us who could assist government to nab
criminals because l know their antics and
modus operandi. Not all of police are bad, but
there are some moles among them that are
spoiling their good work. These few ones
know the real robbers and most of the time
assist them (robbers) to achieve their deadly
mission.
You were once rich and famous where is the
wealth today?
In the first instance, where did all the luxuries
come from? No matter how plenty the devil
gives, it is for a short period, he will collect it
back. No matter how smart you are, any
covenant with the devil, you are going to lose
at the end. It is the devil that will give you a
cap and in return asking buba and gele from
you. Vanity upon vanity all is vanity. There is
nothing that one can gain from the devil apart
from frustration and humiliation; at the end
you are going to have disappointment. You
can imagine when I would strike and snatch
more than 30 cars. I once snatched over 42
cars in a day. Some of the cars I gave to
whomever I wanted. I had so much then.
Paul said in Philippians 3:7-13 “But, all that
amounted to profit for me in life, I have now
seen as loss in Christ”. Verse 13 now says,
“Brethren, I have forgotten the things that are
behind, I press towards things ahead.” In
Psalm 126:1, the same Bible tells me that
“when God returns the loss of Zion, we would
be like them that dream”. I know that to rise
in Christ is the responsibility of every member
of the household of faith. The Holy Spirit
would use every true Christian to put on real
genuine footing. The devil gave me so much
at that time and it took what it gave me. If I
have to recall the painful details and the
anguish, it does not worth it because I am a
new creature. What has been destroyed
cannot be restored just like that. We are now
in Christ, he owns and dispenses eternal joy,
when we end our race here, we would return
to our eternal home: heaven, where there is
no weeping, no anxiety, anguish, hunger and
pain.
Do you have any godfather?
Definitely. When we were in Edo, we had our
godfather who is always there for us anytime
we went on operation. It was the same place
that the likes of Anini, a.k.a. the law and
Monday Osunbor Pero, and Lucky learnt the
rudiment of robbery. We sprung up from one
source.
What usually comes to your mind any day
you are going for operation?
The first thing that readily came to mind was
that ‘the dead must be done’. But before that,
we must first ask people who owns the world
how the day would look like before we step
out. There is a charm called atona
(Pathfinder) that we consult before we go
out. It would tell us what we are going to do
and which sacrifice we are going to make
before we move out. Again there is what we
call eru (fear) which has been deposited into
my body, wherever l go, that fear will not let
you challenge my authority.
Where and how did you get the ammunition
you were using?
As I told you that my father was a military
man, from the beginning gun had been
assembled and dismembered in our house.
Innocently, my father will be doing this
virtually on a daily basis and he tells me to go
and bring one or two things that had
connection with the gun in the house and at
the end he would put the gun together as one.
From that daily experience l knew how to
handle a gun and by the time l left him, there
was no gun l could not put together.
Ironically, what parents did not take serious
and handle with levity, the kids are fast
learning and before you know it, they have
mastered the act. If it is a bad habit, the
family will definitely pay for it. The gun l was
using then was in pieces when brought from
outside the country. I later put it together to
make it a complete gun. After that l return it
into the world of darkness where it was
changed to the gun of the elders. After this l
just recite a few incantations to the gun and
whatever l ask the gun to do is what it will
do. However there is no gun that l cannot
handle a few minutes after studying it.
Those who are working with you, how were
they trained?
There is always time for training; we teach
them how to handle it and how to get their
target. It was an extensive training which we
normally do most of the time especially when
we are going on operation. All those that are
working with me are all in the same cult, they
know our dos and don’ts, we have gone to
many places together, that was why it was
difficult for the police to kill anyone of us.
There is a general charm that the death that
is meant to kill anyone of us should kill
outsiders. There are some incantations to
back it up and it would be backed up in the
world of darkness. Therefore anywhere we
go on operation, instead of recording any
casualty, it is the people around that will die.
Can you recollect how many people your gun
had killed?
No, they are just plenty that l cannot
remember. Aside from this, l used a lot of
people for sacrifice that l cannot even
remember. I don’t want to remember those
dark days.
Now that you are a pastor, do you believe
that there is a curse that actually affected
your destiny?
You are right. There is a saying in Yoruba that
it is only in war that one can die accidentally,
but a curse has a target and no matter the
year it was invoked it will still be operational.
That crisis and curse entered my life when l
was still in my mother’s womb. My father is
a polygamist and one day there was a
quarrel between my mother and my father’s
mother. Then l was told that my father’s
mother invoked a curse on my mother that
she will never deliver me in peace otherwise
she is not from Ikereke (a town in Oyo State)
and my mother replied that she will have a
normal delivery as God lives otherwise she
will not serve God if she comes in the next
word. From that altercation from both, the
curse entered into my life and l carried the
curse and the burden until l met Christ.
How do you handle women and wine?
I engaged in all what you can call devilish
ventures, like smoking of Indian hemp, wine
and in the company of women of easy virtue.
I was in a hotel with about 58 women playing
with me, but the warning from the world of
darkness is that l should not take any of them
to bed. The instruction l followed to the letter.
Then l love women but there was a boundary
which l must not cross. I am compelled to
have fun with my only wife who knew my
entire venture into the world of darkness.
That was why all the women sent to me
cannot do anything to me. Though l spent for
them, but that was just the limit l could go.
Is it true that you once spent N50 million a
day?
How many of that do you want to count,
plenty? There was a time we went for an
operation in Lagos, and it seemed we were in
a tight corner, we just decided to be giving out
the money to the people in order to escape.
There was commotion, everybody was trying
to pick as many naira notes as they can pick.
Did your friends know the type of person you
were?
You know birds of the same feather always
flock together. The so-called friends that l
was moving with as at then were also into
one form of shady deals or the other. But the
funny thing is that nobody could identify my
being with what l was doing. Even if some of
them know me they cannot say it out
because it was too dangerous and there was
nobody l cannot kill. I usually come out in
different faces which made it difficult for
anybody to really identify me. That was the
power given to me in the world of darkness.
Who was the lady that used to accompany
you to all operations?
She was not a human being, though people
referred to her as an alhaja, but she was a
demon donated to me in the world of
darkness. She will dress the way l dressed
and must always be with me any time I am
going out on operation. She is the one that
was picked from the kingdom of Satan to be
my partner.
How did you meet Christ?
It was such a miraculous way. I met Christ at
a cross road. It was a miracle l did not
expect. I met Christ through Prophet T. O.
Obadare. I made myself available to the
police and l have to bear all the detention and
all the agonies l faced for about 11 years. A
lot of Christian brothers rallied round me with
conviction that l should give my life to Christ.
Then Papa Obadare came to me in the prison
that though l was expecting death, God has
removed death from my head if I am ready to
surrender everything to him. In my own
thinking l thought all was over, with all the
atrocities l had committed, but God showed
me mercy and gave me the second chance.
So when l slept, l saw that the cloth of yoke
and burden was removed from my neck, l
was off from the bondage of Satan, a new
cloth was given to me. By the time l woke up,
l was talking in tongues. From that encounter,
for the first time in my life that my soul would
calm down, l learnt how to pray. I stopped
taking cocaine and Indian hemp. Everything
about me became new.
What do you think government can do to stop
robbery?
The simple truth is that we cannot stop
robbery, but we can reduce it to the barest
minimum, because we asked for it. In
Matthew 27, we asked for it. They said
Barnabas should be released instead of Jesus
Christ, when Pilate said that this man did not
commit any sin. They said no way, release
Barnabas and let his blood be on us and on
our children. Ever since then robbery and
killing became the order of the day.
Government should be able to tap from the
wealth of experience of people like us who
can decode a lot of knotty issues as regard
how to curb the menace of armed robbery.
Some of those that are inside the prison are
not supposed to be there. By the time they
are out, they become hardened criminals. I
pray that God will help us to make things
work in this country, if he could locate me
from the pit of darkness where l sojourned,
and now in Christ, he will deliver the country
from bad leaders who make things difficult
for the masses.
Source:NATIONAL MIRROR

Ogboju olosa.

kindly summarize in a sentence. thank you

today is Sunday , we can't read all this after reading our Bibles. summarize it OP

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dondo83:
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Thanks oo, lazy pple

I don't tink I can even afford to imagine what this guys life has really bin like. Bless the name of the lord, for he gives a unique pedigree to the word "SURE".

jayte054:
I don't tink I can even afford to imagine what this guys life has really bin like. Bless the name of the lord, for he gives a unique pedigree to the word "SURE".

You're right