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The jigsaw of the mystery killing of two persons on Sunday, July 10th in Amarata, a suburb of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital is now being solved.
... Recover large cache of arms
The jigsaw of the mystery killing of two persons on Sunday, July 10th in Amarata, a suburb of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital is now being solved.
It would be recalled that the Telegraph reported the ill-fated Sunday night killings during which a barber and an innocent youth corp member was felled in a shootout.
By Tuesday night another killing took place in Ekeki area of the town.
It was on the strength of these killings that the police swung into action on Wednesday at the end of which two suspects were hauled in.
The duo, Godgift Mounkuraigha and Munene John confessed their part in the killings during a media briefing. Godgift revealed that he is a member of the Ateke group and that the killings on Sunday were as a result of some other cultists attempt to kill him and in the process stray bullets hit the two innocent victims.
The Tuesday killing he alleged was a sort of a counter attack from his own group.
By the early hours of Thursday, the police acting on the outcome of their interrogation of the duo stormed Okaka, a community close to Ekeki, and were able to retrieve AK 47 and Scorpion guns plus 398 rounds of ammunition and 90 cartridges from the home of one Monday Alami (aka Politician) believed to be the armourer of the 'bad boys' that the police prefer to call armed robbers.
Monday acting on intuition had fled before the police raid but his landlord was arrested, a move the police boss, Oliver Osuchukwu, said was to discourage other landlords from harbouring criminals.
"One point is clear, I'II continues to do my duties. When these killings happened some mischievous people started inseminating that the police were involved. But thank God we have been vindicated," he stressed.
He pleaded for the cooperation of all and sundry in the fight against crime. "The fight (against crime) is not a lone fight for the police. Everybody must be vigilant", he said.
Meanwhile, the police is continuing with its investigation.