17 Wanted Over Killing of Police Officers in Bayelsa

Bayelsa State Police Command yesterday declared “a notorious criminal, ‘Virus’ and 17 others involved in the April gruesome killing of 11 Policemen along the waterway of Lorbia community” in the state wanted.

  The police command, in a statement in Yenagoa and signed by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Alex Akhigbe, said the persons wanted were found culpable and involved in the killing of the policemen.

  They are all identified as beneficiaries of the ongoing amnesty programme of the Federal Government.

  The indictment of the alleged killers of the policemen was said to have been made possible with the arrest and continued interrogation of one of the suspects identified as Jackson Feutubobai, known along the creeks as Jasper.