According to him, four commercial tricycles, assorted types of mobile phones and sundry items were recovered from the six-man gang.
“It is time to stop handling the tormentors of the Nembe people with a kid glove.”
Asinim Butswat, the police spokesperson in Bayelsa, said the abandoned children of the same parents were brought to the police by a ‘Good Samaritan’.
Four passengers and the driver of the Mazda car died on the spot.
Former Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa has called for improved regulation of marine transportation in the country.
On Thursday, a boat conveying several passengers capsized near Okoroma in the Nembe council area of Bayelsa.
Neighbours say the man might have hit his girlfriend hard, resulting in her bleeding to death.
On Thursday, the police decried the jungle justice and warned residents against taking the law into their hands.
