Operatives of the Bayelsà State Police Command have intensifies their clamp down on warring cult groups in the state with the arrest of over twenty suspects.
The security action, ordered by the State Police Commissioner, Ajao Saka Adewale, has led police operatives to Swali, Akenfa, Down Yenagoa, Agudama and other communities known to have been infested by these cult groups.
Our correspondent gathered that the Police action and warnings to community leaders and youths known to be harbouring these cultists, have openly disown the cult groups.
It was gathered that the Police Divisions in the State, with the assistance of tactical teams, have made useful arrest and the activities of the cult groups have been curtailed.
A check from Police sources showed that known notorious cultists have been arrested while others are being hunted.
Also, the Police shooting of a suspected cultist in Onopa area of the State capital have sparked protest with indigenes accusing the operatives of the Anti-Cultism Team of indiscriminate arrest and shooting.
The aggrieved indigenes also alleged that the policeman who shot the boy (name unknown) and the informant that implicated him of being a member of Vikings and selling illicit drugs, are also members of a rival cult group known as Bobos.
They called on the Commissioner of Police, Ajao Saka Adewale, to investigate some of the police personnel in the state over their alleged involvement in cultism.
The victim, who is accused of selling illicit drugs under the cover of being a POS operator was shot on Tuesday during a police raid.
Police authorities confirmed that the victim is recieving treatment at the Federal Medical Center in Yenagoa and not dead as rumoured by the aggrieved community indigenes.
It would be recalled that no fewer than five persons were feared killed last weekend in a renewed cult war that gripped Yenagoa, the Bayelsà State capital.
The war, which broke out on Friday between notorious cult groups known as Bobos and Greenlanders, has led to recorded killings in Agudama, Obele and Back of St.Peters in the state capital.
Sources confirmed the killings have damaged the peace accord secured among the various cult groups by the Former leadership of the State Police Command.
The State Commissioner of Police, CP Ajao Saka Adewale however, responded with an order for personnel to intensify operations against cultism and cult-related violence across the State
