A statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, Asinim Butswat, on Monday, identified the members of the four-man child-trafficking syndicate as Sunday Aniele, Chioma Obi, Kingsley Chimobi and Harriet Chukwu.
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The suspect confessed in a video to have been behind the kidnap of a bank manager, who paid N60 million ransom
The Bayelsa State Police Command has confirmed the assassination of the ex-militant leader, calling for calm.
This became known on Saturday following a video that was posted on Twitter by a yet-to-be-known source showing his present state
The CP presented the money to the next-of-kins of the dead officers at the Police Command’s headquarters in Yenagoa on behalf of the Inspector General of Police, (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba.
A statement issued Saturday by the Command’s Spokesman, SP Asinim Butswat, said the squad would commence operation on Monday, July 4, 2022.
The new CP takes over from CP Echeng E. Echeng, earlier redeployed to the Anambra State Police Command
The suspected male ritualist, Sunday Favour Ojo, who hails from Edo State, was arrested on September 21, 2021.
The Commissioner, Bayelsa State Police Command, Echeng Echeng, confirmed the development on Sunday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Igbifa was on his way to Abuja on May 25 for a scheduled meeting with the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Office, retired Colonel Milland Dikio, when the incident happened.
Asinim Butswat, a Superintendent of Police and spokesman of the Command, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa.
He gave the directive on December 18 at the Police Officers Mess in Yenagoa during the end of year gathering of senior police officers.
The incident happened when a 40-year-old jealous lover, Etifa Obukulubu, set the home of his girlfriend on fire over suspicion of cheating.
A statement on Wednesday in Yenagoa by SP Asimin Butswat, the Public Relations Officer of the Bayelsa State Police Command, said the attempted kidnap occurred on September 10.
The police also rescued along with her some workers of Shell Petroleum Development Company kidnapped two months ago.
The Commissioner of Police, Nkereuwem Akpan, disclosed this at a news briefing at the state police headquarters in Yenagoa on Wednesday.
Available reports say the gunmen invaded the community in the early hours of Friday, shooting sporadically to scare off residents, and in the process shot and injured a vigilante on duty
Nkereuwem Akpan is now the new Commissioner in the Bayelsa State Police command.
The State’s Commissioner of Police, Uche Anozia, announced the curfew extension on Monday during a press briefing in Yenagoa
The Bayelsa State Police Command has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew over violent protests by alleged political supporters in the state.