Cultists Arrested At Herbalist’s Home After Killing A Rival
The Chairman, Bayelsa State Volunteers has apprehended three members of a cult group who were engaged in a bloody shootout with another group in Saint Peters Church axis, Yenagoa, in the early hours of Friday 31st of August 2018.
The young men who had brutally killed a member of a rival group fled the scene of the incident with bullet wounds to Ikolo village.
Three young men crossed the river Nun to meet their herbalist so as to extract the bullets lodged in their bodies.
The Chairman in the company of some of Special Squad and Policemen attached to the State Volunteers chased the boys to their hideout in Ikolo village where they were caught inside a room while others ran into the bush.
Meanwhile, the dead young man whose body was hurriedly buried in a shallow grave across the river opposite the Federal Medical Centre was exhumed for a proper autopsy.
The body of Kali Dede has since been deposited at FMC mutuary as ordered by the State Police Anti-Cultism Department.
Hon. Asanakpo has advised citizens of the state to cooperate with the agency by providing the needed information about crime and criminality anywhere in the state.