Ritualists invade Delta, Police gunned down three suspects

The police in Sapele, Delta State has confirmed the death of a three-man gang of ritual killers’ named as “Ghana Buggers” after the suspected men were linked to the death of a commercial motorcyclist (okada-rider) whose private organ was removed and dumped in an undisclosed area along Sapele-Warri Road.

The victim (Okada rider) was said to have met his untimely death when he was asked to be taken to Amukpe area of Sapele by two members of the gang and was overpowered, killed and dumped after his body was dismembered.

The other member, a native doctor, confessed by one of the suspect is presently in police custody and undergoing interrogation while the surviving member, Emmanuel Ogbotor is receiving treatment from bullet wounds at the Central Hospital Sapele.

When Newsmen visited the crowded hospital, there was heavy security around the premises, with a large crowd trying to catch glimpse of the survivor.

Police source said the suspects were arrested by soldiers of the 19 Battalion on a tip-off by men of the vigilante group where one of them died in the process of exchanging fire with security men and the others were overpowered and brought to the Police Station.

Only recently, two suspected members of a kidnapping gang were identified and gunned down in Sapele, two weeks after the release of the wife of a Seplat Petroleum Company executive that was in the kidnapper’s den after 42 days of detention in the riverine creeks.

While a new wave of ritual killings is on the increase in Sapele, Oghara, Jesse and its environs, several persons have been allegedly killed by ritualists in the area, a situation that compelled the Monarch of the Jesse Kingdom and women invoking a curse
on the evil perpetrators of such crimes.

The action of the women stemmed from increasing scare and reports of murdered farmers and commercial motor-cyclists reportedly killed by ritual killers under the code name of Ghana Buggers.