Eight reportedly killed in renewed Bayelsa cult war
- Eight people have been reportedly killed in a cult war in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital
- The renewed cult war, according to sources, was between two notorious cult groups identified as Greanlanders and Bobos
- Police public relations officer Asinim Butswat confirmed clashes by cult groups, but said three persons were killed
Pandemonium struck Yenagoa, Bayelsa state as eight people were reportedly killed during a rival war between two notorious cult groups identified as Greanlanders and Bobos.
Punch reports that some residents of Yenagoa metropolis, particularly those living on Egbide Road; Ebis Road, along Biogbolo; Obele, along Yenagoa; Sandfill, along Hospital Road; and Good News Street, in the Azikoro village area, had reportedly witnessed some killings.
It was learnt that one of the deceased, identified as T. Juice, a suspected member of the Greenlanders cult and an indigene of the Ogbia local government area of the state, was shot dead at close range while eating at an open restaurant in the area.
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The killers were said to have escaped through the OMPADEC Road. By the time six detachments of policemen arrived at the scene, a radio message to police patrol teams indicated that another shooting had taken place in the Elebele area with another dead body left behind.
Many residents of the state capital, who spoke on the incidents, blamed the judiciary and the director of public prosecutions for alleged fraudulent advice and non-prosecution of arrested cultists.
Some claimed that the DPP was frustrating the men of the Nigeria Police Force in the area of diligent prosecution of arrested cultists in spite of the recent anti-cultism bill signed into law by Governor Seriake Dickson.
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Police public relations officer Asinim Butswat confirmed clashes by cult groups, but said three persons were killed.
Butswat said: “Three persons have been reported dead in the past four days. It was cult clashes between rival cult groups. We have identified the ringleaders of some of the groups that clashed.
“We have so far arrested three persons in connection with the killings and we have intensified efforts to arrest other cult members.”
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that police arrested two more suspects in the deadly armed robbery attack in Offa, Kwara state on April 5.
The development came three weeks after the police circulated pictures of four suspects who were captured by closed-circuit camera of the banks that they attacked.
At least five banks were raided during the April 5 incident. Seventeen people, including nine police officers, were confirmed killed by the police.
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Source: Legit.ng
