Once upon a time, the mention of the name Shina Rambo sent sh|vers down the spines of many Nigerians. Rambo was a n0torious arm£d r0bber who t£rrorized people, that even police officers were were afra|d of him. He was said to have murd£red, robb£d and left behind a history of t£rror that will take years to erase.
For history sake, the life of the not0rious armèd r0bber who later became a pastor has been brought back for all to read and learn.
Shina Rambo is a former ßandit who terr0rised South-West Nigeria in the 1990s. After serving ja|l-time for his cr|mes, he was converted by an evangelist and became a Christian evangelical pastor. Shina Rambo now Mathew Oluwanifemi was a name that sent shivers down the spine of people who lived in the South West of Nigeria and even outside Nigeria, like Benin Republic and neighborhood, in the 1990s.
He was a hard£ned cr|minal, a t£rror and kill£r, one whom men of the security agencies will never forget in a haste.
A man mountain, towering about 6 ft 5inch, well built, dark skinned and sweltering eyes, he carried out his operati0ns, like a movie, in the broad day light, with sophisticat£d w£apons, and bull£t belts and explosives strapped roundabout him. He specialized in r0bbing exotic cars on highways and r0bbing banks. Nothing could stop him, not even security operatives, he was totally invinc|ble. He was Shina Rambo!
He was born in the year 1958 to a military man who was a ßad egg in the service. His father was from Abeokuta in Ogun state, but his mother was a native of Sabongida–Ora in Edo state. His father had over 18 wives, as was the norm for soldiers to impr£gnate virtually every woman they met where they were posted to. His father used his m|litary influence to r0b innocent citizens, and always brought huge amount of money home. This used to entice little Shina according to him.
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He recalls, “I remembered when I was about 7 years old, my father came home with a lot of money, foreign currencies, with bl00d on it, and they were using something like a woman’s scarf to wipe it, then I asked him, is this an animal’s ßlood, or human ßlood? But he wouldn’t answer me, they were just drinking, smoking, and merry making.”
Shina was already ind0ctrinated into the underworld by his father at a tender age of 7 without him knowing it, as he would sit in front of his son, to d|smantle and assemble all sorts of w£apons and then p0lishing them in preparation for an operation. This went on for so long till one day, little Shina, entered into his father’s room while he had stepped into the toilet, and saw a dism£mbered gùn on the floor. He sat down in front of it, and bit by bit, he had assembled it eff0rtlessly in no time at all. His father came out of the toilet, and saw his son, with a l0aded gun in his hands.
Shina flashed back and said, “That day my father was so disapp0inted, that he wanted to k|ll me, he grabbed the gùn from my hand and sh0t straight at me, but I miraculously escaped out of the room. Then he waited for me to be less alert at night he came to my room with a màchete and tried to ßehead me, but once again, I escaped, but the màchete caught my left leg (he rolled up his trouser to show us the large scàr, that made everyone sighed in pity). It cùt me so deep I thought I was never going to walk again.
“That day I knew I had graduated, all that was left was to pull the trigg£r, and I was so eager.”
ShinaRambo became so n0torious in no time, and was h£llbent on succeeding in his career as an arm£d robber, that he went through any length to secure sp|ritual powers for fortificati0n.
To the extent of pounding over 27 live new born babies in the mortar with a pestle, cùtting off about 100 human tongues and cooking them to eat, visiting the sp|ritual river called river of life in Ogoja, Cross Rivers State, living in an Iroko tree for days, and sleeping in the c£metery
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He was given a sp|ritual wife who always followed him for ànshe dressed like an Alhaja, people thought she was human, but she was a sp|rit, that was why they never saw her face. He said she was his personal driver, that she could drive from Nigeria to Cotonou, in the speed of light.
Hear him. ”I was involved in so many r|tuals, that I can’t start naming them now, I was so p0werful, I went underground, inside trees that looked like a city, a lot of beautiful houses inside the tree, I had my own too. I went into a river called River of life in Ogoja, where a lot of p0liticians and wealthy men used to come. I had several personalities, I could change my form whenever I wanted to, that’s why the police were busy k|lling innocent people, and thought they were k|lling Shina Rambo.
“The 9 h£rbalists that gave me that power, I became str0nger than them, one day I went to their shrines, and kill£d all of them, so that they don’t reveal my s£crets. I had too many p0wers; my sp|ritual wife could drive any car in this world or out of it, no police vehicle, or anyone for that matter, could ever chase and catch me during an 0peration. She was out of this world, and when she had completed her 0peration, they took her away from me. I could give anything to get p0wers, and the elders knew, so they also gave me anything I wanted. I once b£headed hundred men, and gave them the heads fresh, they were so happy with me that they made me |nvincible.
“No matter the kind of ßullet you sh0t at me, it was just like pure water on my body. I could give anything to get p0wer, but of all the things I did to get p0wer, the one that still ßreaks my heart the most, is sleeping with my mother
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My father is d£ad now, but my mother is still alive, and she lives with me she is 85 years old. Whenever I set my eyes on her, I just start cry|ng. I can’t bear it. ”
Shina Rambo was a rag|ng t£rror, he was infa|libly dang£rous, the police dr£aded him, both in Nigeria, and Benin Republic, his place of interest for business. He would go to police stations, in broad daylight and k|ll every policeman there, drive to check p0ints and open f|re on every p0liceman on duty, he didn’t like the p0lice at all, and was never afra|d of them, he 0perated in broad day light arm£d to the teeth looking like Johny Rambo, in the popular Sylvester Stalone movie, “First Bl00d”.
He once r0bbed 40 exotic cars in one day and drove all of them in a conv0y, from Lagos to Cotonou, unstopped. He was p0werful; he was w£althy, and imp£netrable. He was a tin g0d, apparently b£lched from the very arroyo h£ll, we all dr£aded him. He had a wife and three children, but he l0st all of them in one day during a bl00dy police ra|d whilst he was away on 0peration. His wife was his stabilizing factor his life changed afterwards.
He says “my wife was everything to me, I was f0rbidden by the elders to sleep with any other woman apart from her. I could gather about 50 women around me in a hotel, and they will just be playing with me. We would sm0ke, drink, and sniff c0caine, I will give them money but I will never sleep with them. I will go back home to my wife and sleep with her. That was why the p0lice never caught me. She knew my job, she knew what I was and I never left them alone at night, I 0perated in the day time and go back home to my family at night.
“I had everything, I was very wealthy, I sometimes spent 50 million naira in a day, I did that a lot. There was one day that we were coming from an operati0n and it seemed as if my p0wers were going to fa|l me, the police and the army were almost closing in on us, so we had to drive into a crowd and threw millions of naira in the air, there was comm0tion, everybody was busy picking naira notes even the police, until we escaped. I was too rich, but anything the d£vil gives you never lasts, he will collect more from you, it’s only the d£vil that will give you Fila, (cap) and ask for Iro and Buba (wrapper and top). I l0st everything, all the money, my family; I was so p0werful the police couldn’t catch me but I L0st it all. I had to surrender myself to the police and I was arr£sted and jail£d for 11 years.
“While I was serving my ja|l term in Agodi prisons, Ibadan, Prophet T.O Obadare came visiting, and having been encouraged several times by the Christian brothers and sisters in the pris0n to give my life to Christ, he prayed for me and converted me, and changed my name to Oluwanifemi, and it was so miraculous, the next day I woke up and started speaking in tongues. It was during the time of President Olusegun Obasanjo, that we were granted freedom.
Shina Rambo gave this exclusive c0nfession on an open ground revival in the ancient city of Ibadan.
G0d is indeed wonderful. Shina rambo has sent many people to their early grav£ without repentant of their s|ns. They may go to h£ll and him having given his life to Christ may end up in heaven.
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