Outrage as police keep mum over cults’ killings
The Bayelsa State Police Command has received a backlash from some aggrieved residents over its alleged silence on the rival cults’ war that has claimed the lives of two persons in the state.
It was learnt that two more lives had allegedly been lost in Ekeki and Kpansia
communities of the Yenagoa metropolis following raging cults’ war in the areas.
Rival cult groups were said to have continued their rivalry on Wednesday in the state capital with the killing of two more persons about 9pm.
An eyewitness, who did not want to be named, said the victim, popularly known as Oracle, an indigene of Delta State, was a suspected member of a rival cult.
At Kpansia area, armed cult group was reported to have invaded a ‘suya’ spot and lured their victim with a girl and thereafter shot him at a close range.
Though eyewitnesses claimed the man did not die before he was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, some medical staff at the hospital insisted that the victim died from gunshot wounds.
Worried residents of Kpansia, Bay Bridge, Opolo, Biogbolo and Amarata areas of the state capita
l, alleged that the silence of the police command was creating widespread fear and trepidation in them.
They claimed that since Mr Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi came on board as Commissioner, the state had allegedly witnessed cases of increased burglary and stealing, cult activities, rape and armed robbery.
A senior police officer, attached to the anti-Vice section of the command, disagreed that crimes had increased since Ogunjemilusi took over.
The officer, who did not want to be quoted, said since the coming of the police boss, many cultists and other criminal elements had been arrested.
However, he said a few challenges the command was having were inadequate logistics such as shortage of patrol vehicles and inadequate support from the relevant authorities.
Efforts to get Ogunjemilusi to respond to the allegations proved abortive as he neither picked his calls nor responded to text message to his mobile phone.
Also, calls to the spokesman for the command, Asinim Butswat, indicated that his phone was switched of
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