Virus,17 others wanted over killing of 11 cops

BY SAMUEL OYADONGHA
YENAGOA — The Bayelsa State Police
Command has declared wanted leader of
the renegade militant group, simply called
Virus and 17 others involved in the April
gruesome killing of 11policemen along
the waterways of Lobia community in
Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of
the state.
The police command, according to a
statement, yesterday, by its spokesman,
Mr. Alex Akhigbe, said those wanted were
found culpable in the killing of the
policemen.
Among those declared wanted are Lucky
Bakumo alias Blacky, Egedin Godday
Sunday alias Community, Young Money
alias Virus, Emeka Samuel, Blacky
Wikewei, Idowu Matthew,
Odobogheonuru Famous and Odenyen
Zinikiware.
They are all identified as beneficiaries of
the ongoing amnesty programme of the
Federal Government.
It was learnt that the indictment of the
alleged killers of the policemen was made
possible with the arrest of one of the
suspects identified as Jackson Feutubobai
also known as Jasper.
Jasper, according to security sources, was
a drop out of the Law Department in
state-owned Niger Delta University,
Amassoma.
The suspect told newsmen, while being
paraded at the state police headquarters,
that the suspects declared wanted were
directly involved in the killing and burning
of the policemen.
"Virus disobeyed my instruction and
wasted the lives of the policemen," he
told newsmen, adding that the wanted
Virus and others left Azuzuama for Port
Harcourt and Bakassi after committing
the act.