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.
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. 
