Brave police officer who arrested Lawrence Anini, the most wanted and dreaded armed robber in Nigeria in the late 80s, is dead. Mr Kayode Uaneroro died yesterday morning.
Kayode was the commandant at the Mopol training school at Gwoza when it was suggested to then IGP that if they were serious about getting Anini, Kayode was to be detailed for the task.
Standing at over six feet, dark and ripling with muscles with a no-nonsense visage, Kayode apart from being a crack Police detective also had a black belt in Karate. He had had many encounters with armed robbers and many had paid dearly. He was naturally the man to go after Anini who had become a kind of National ambarassment.
In a couple of weeks and acting on intelligence, Kayode and his ten man team of crack policemen working in mufti but heavily armed stormed into a Benin city house where Lawrence Anini was hiding. The latter wasn’t expecting the Police. He was shot on his left ankle by Kayode and immobilized.
The Kayode-led team’s operation brought to an end the reign of Lawrence Anini and the national embarrassment.
