The Bayelsa Police command has nabbed seven suspected cultists accused of invading the Peremabiri Police Division and forcefully releasing one Prince Ayibalaifa from the cell.
The police said the suspects had been arrested and were being detained by the State Police Command.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Asuquo Amba, said the cult members inflicted injury on one of the policemen on duty, Corporal Elijah Osara, during the attack on the station in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.
The CP, who paraded the suspects, gave their names as Douye Koufe, 23; Wisdom Reuben, 23; Solomon Jackson, 18; Samuel Odozi, 20; Thomas Canan, 23; Andy Daves, 24; and Junior Japhter, 23.
He said the suspects had confessed to being members of the Greenlanders cult, except Douye Koufe, who claimed to belong to the Icelanders.
Amba said investigation was ongoing, stressing that the suspects would be prosecuted as soon as investigation was concluded.
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The CP, who lamented the attack on the station, said Peremabiri Police Division was one of the new facilities the authorities were trying to rebuild after it was sacked by militants sometime ago.
He said since the militants’ attack on the area, the police and the government had been trying to bring back civil authority to the area.
Amba said, “We still have the problem of cult activities in the area. We have been trying to nip this problem in the bud, but we still see that we have not completely succeed. The arrest is continuous.
“Peremabiri division is one of the new facilities we are trying to rebuild because the place was sacked by militants.
“The seven cult members from Greenlanders and Icelanders invaded the police station to rescue one Prince Ayibalaifa, who was detained for indecent assault. They rescued the person and escaped, but they were all rearrested.’’
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