Bayelsa Police Parades 27 Criminal Suspects
YENAGOA – The Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested 27 suspects for alleged criminal offences ranging from armed robbery to kidnapping, murder, impersonation, car theft and vandalisation of high tension electric cables.
Commissioner of Police, Mike Okoli, paraded the suspects, which included 25 males and two females, at the command headquarters in Yenagoa on Wednesday.
He said that crack investigative teams of policemen apprehended the suspects at different locations in Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states between December 2020 and January 2021.
Among them were members of a four-man gang, Sunday Imoh Essien, Michael Clifford, Apena Akpabio and one Ondogha Ebi, who reportedly killed the driver of a Toyota Sienna car they had hired to drive them to Port Harcourt from Yenagoa in November 2020.
Okoli, who noted that the command acted on the report of a missing person, said: “On getting to Okobe community along Ahoada-Port Harcourt (East-West) Road, they instructed the deceased to park the vehicle so they could ease themselves.
“In the process, they stabbed the deceased to death inside the vehicle, threw him inside the bush and stole the vehicle. They later sold the vehicle to one Cletus John, 38.
“The decomposing remains of the victim were recovered and deposited at the Federal Medical Centre. The suspects have confessed to the crime and they will soon be charged to court.”
He also explained that one of the 27 suspects recruited four gang members and provided them with fake military camouflage to carry out inter-state criminal operations.
Also paraded by the command were one Ebiere Ezekiel, who allegedly stabbed his boyfriend, Godgift Aboh, to death following a fight they had in their residence in Yenagoa as well as one Promise Olive who slapped his girlfriend, Esther Uko, twice and she slumped and died.
Okoli said the corpses of the two deceased had been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre, adding that all the suspects would be charged to court.
The police commissioner warned hoodlums operating in Bayelsa to relocate as the command was adequately prepared to tackle crime and arrest offenders, no matter where they would run to.
The police additionally took conveyance of six operational vehicles and a truck fixed and repaired by the Nigerian Content Development And Monitoring Board.
