By Peregba Jerry
Rivers State Police Commissioner, CP Nwonyi Emeka says four members of the wanted gang leader David Okpara popularly known as 2Baba have been killed and three others arrested.
2baba is the leader of the cult group that allegedly killed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ahoada East LGA, SP Bako Angbashim.
CP Emeka, revealed this during a media briefing at the command headquarters in Port Harcourt yesterday, said the hoodlums were killed three days after the murder of SP Bako Angbashim, when operatives of the command had stormed the Odemudie forest in search of the remains of the DPO.
The police commissioner, who was reading out recent achievements of the command, noted that the cultists had engaged the police operatives in crossfire and that the four cultists were fatally wounded while many others escaped the scene.
He said: “On September 10, 2023 about 1030hrs, actionable intelligence revealed that a gang of notorious Iceland cultists, armed robbery suspects and kidnappers led by one Gift David Okpara Okpolonwo, aka 2-baba, who led his notorious gang to brutally murder SP Bako Angbashim, DPO Ahoada on September 8, 2023, were in their hideout at Odemude Forest, Ahoada-East Local Government Area.
“Following the information, a combined team of Command Tactical Operatives and Area Commander Ahoada, stormed the forest in an effort to arrest the notorious hoodlums and possible recovery of the corpse of the late officer.
“The hoodlums who were battle ready, immediately engaged the operatives in fierce gun battle, during which four of the notorious hoodlums, who are yet to be identified, sustained fatal gunshot injuries while others escaped into the forest, three suspects were arrested and a locally made pistol recovered from them.
“Meanwhile, the four notorious suspected criminals, who sustained serious injuries were rushed to the UPTH for medical attention but were confirmed dead by the doctor on duty.”
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