The Police in Bayelsa State have intensified efforts to fetch out the killers of an officer in the state.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ebere Onyeagoro, while confirming the killing during his maiden press briefing on Monday in Yenagoa, said the officer ran into a clash between two cult groups and regrettably lost his life on duty.
He said: “It was essentially a problem of cultism. It was very unfortunate the officer ran into them and lost his life in that encounter.
“We will do our best to sustain patrols and curtail cult related acts in Bayelsa.
“We are acting on intelligence to ensure that all those concerned in the killing will be brought to book, though that is the hazard of Police job, but we are doing our best to ensure that such incident doesn’t occur again.”
The police boss also explained that upon resumption of duty in Bayelsa State, he noticed that the prevailing crime in the state were cultism, armed robbery, rape and indecent assault, adding that the command was putting all measures on ground to curtail these crimes.
He said that the force tactical teams have been reinvigorated to deal decisively with serious and violent crimes in the state, urging parents in the state to caution their children about the dangers of indulging in crimes.
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