By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa
Following a tip off, operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command, in collaboration with the vigilante of Okutukutu community, Yenagoa, arrested four suspected cultists on January 10, 2020, at about 0530 hours, for allegedly initiating minors into cultism.
The suspected cultists include; 29 year-old Godbless Jackson, a native of Idu-Oruan, Oruan Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State; Happy Osoro (21 years old) of Okogbe, Ughelli South Local Government Area in Delta State; Lawson Nmor (23 years), of Rumuekpe, Emohua, Local Government Area in Rivers State and Dennis Sunday (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.