By Amos Okioma
The Bayelsa State Police Command in collaboration with the vigilante of Okutukutu community, Yenagoa, has arrested four suspected cultists.
They were arrest on January 10, 2020 at about 0530 hours, for allegedly initiating minors into cultism.
The suspects include; Godbless Jackson ‘m’, 29 years, a native of Idu-Oruan, Oruan Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State; Happy Osoro ‘m’ 21 years of Okogbe, Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State; Lawson Nmor ‘m’ 23 years, of Rumuekpe, Emohua, Local Government Area, Rivers State; and Dennis Sunday ‘m’ 21 years, of Ekpe Ukpa, Etinan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. all the suspects are residents of Okutukutu Community, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The suspects were arrested when one of the minors they had initiated informed his elder brother of the alleged initiation.
According to a statement signed by SP Asinim Butswat, Police Public Relations Officer, all the suspects confessed to the crime and are being interrogated for further investigation at the Anti-Cultism Unit, State Criminal Investigation Department, Yenagoa.
