Bayelsa police nab cultist suspected of killing DPO in Rivers
The police in Bayelsa have nabbed one of the suspected killers of SP Bako Angbashim, a former divisional police officer of Ahoada Division in Rivers.
The police spokesman in Bayelsa, CSP Asinim Butswat, stated on Saturday that the suspect, Onyekachi Ikowa,43, the second-in-command to TuBaba, leader of the dreaded “Icelander’’ cult group in Rivers, was arrested on November 18.
“Based on an intelligence report that Ikowa was hibernating in Yenagoa after the callous murder of Late SP Angbashim in September, Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa, Mr Francis Iduh, charged that he be fished out.
“The suspect has been handed over to the police in Rivers for further investigation,’’ Mr Butswat stated.
(NAN)
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