Claim: Police complicity is believed to have caused Lawrence Anini's violence in 1986 after police prosecuted members of his gang despite an agreement to free them.
Evidence: The complicity of the police is believed to have triggered Anini's reign of terror in 1986. In early 1986, two members of his gang called Kingsley alias Baba K and Kele were tried and prosecuted against an earlier under-the-table bribe induced agreement with the police to destroy evidence against the gang members.