Killing of Miyetti Allah leader: Police arrest three suspects

Police authorities in Bayelsa State on Monday said it has arrested three suspects in connection with the killing of chairman of Miyetti Allah (Cattle Breeders Association) in Bayelsa State, Alhaji Jibril Abdulkarim and three of his employees. Abdulkarim and his three aides were killed on Saturday near his private abattoir in Yenagoa.

According to Mr. Asuquo Amba, Bayelsa Police Commisioner who disclosed this in a telephone interview the suspects were being profiled while their telephone communication was also being scrutinized.

He said, “We have so far taken three suspects into custody and we are profiling them and their communication, we are looking at their phone communications, from facts before us it is an assassination done on close range and the people must have been known to them.

“We are equally looking at the leadership issues and election of the Fulanis , I am hopeful that with the clues we have, we are following the clue and I am hopeful we shall be able to have a breakthrough”.

It would be recalled that the Bayelsa government had on Sunday tasked the Police and security agencies to fish out the culprits to face thelaw.

Chris Eze, Yenagoa