The police in Sapele have apprehended a three-man gang of ritual
killers and armed robbers with one shot dead after they had killed a
commercial motorcyclist popularly known as Okada rider and removed his
private organ and dumped the body along the Warri-Sapele highway.
The victim was said to have met his untimely death when he was hired by the ritualists to take them to Amukpe area of Sapele.
It was learnt that the gang had been operating along the Adejei,
Elume Junction and Ibada Elume axis, as well as the villages along the
Warri-Sapele highway.
Their mode of operation is to rob commercial motorcyclists of their
motorcycles and kill them, before cutting off their body parts, but luck
was said to have ran out on them, when they were apprehended by
soldiers of the 19 Battalion, Koko, on a tip-off by men of the Amukpe
Vigilance group in Sapele.
One of them died in the process of exchanging fire with security men
and the others were overpowered and brought to the police station.
According to an authoritative source, the other member, Mr. Victor
Moses, 41, a native doctor, is in police custody undergoing
interrogation, while another member, Emmanuel Ogbotor, is receiving
treatment from bullet wounds at the Central Hospital.
When pressmen visited the hospital, there was heavy security around
the premises and a large crowd of people were seen trying to catch a
glimpse of the dead robber who died from gunshot wounds.
Only recently, two suspected members of a kidnap gang were killed
when four of the arrested members, including a female, in an attempt to
take the operatives to their hideout at Akpakakpa near Abigborodo in
Warri North local government area of Delta State, led the team into an
ambush, leading to a shootout between the soldiers of the 19th Battalion
and the hoodlums.
A new wave of ritual killing is on the upsurge in Sapele, Oghara,
Jesse and environs. Several persons have been killed by ritualists in
the area, a situation that compelled the monarch of Jesse Kingdom and
women to invoke a curse on the perpetrators of such crimes.
At the Sapele Police Command, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) was
not on seat to confirm the story but a police source who spoke on
condition of anonymity, confirmed the incident.
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