Bayelsa police probes death of 3 suspected cultists

Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa

 The Bayelsa State Police Command is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of three suspected cultists in Odi community, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state.

According to investigations, the killings, believed to be a reprisal attacks, which occurred at the weekend, was a direct fallout of the recent killings of suspected cultists in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.

Findings revealed that a truce brokered by some officials of the Bayelsa state government through the office of the coordinator of the Bayelsa Volunteer Force to rein in the cultists failed as the cult groups insisted on the supremacy battle.

A  community sources  said residents woke up to see three lifeless bodies of  a popular young man in Odi,  identified as James Alex, and two…