Authorities of the Bayelsa State Police Command have confirmed the murder of a construction worker, simply identified as Mr Wale, who was abducted on Friday night and killed by gunmen suspected to be cultists.
Wale’s lifeless body was dumped along the Gloryland Drive Expressway in Yenagoa local government area of the state.
LEADERSHIP gathered that the deceased who until his untimely death, lived in Akenpai area of Yenagoa LGA, appeared to have been killed by a single gunshot on his head at the time his lifeless body was found last Saturday.
The state police command in a statement yesterday through the spokesperson, DSP Asinim Buswat, said the police suspected that the murder of Wale was cult-related and that investigation had commenced.
He said, “We are suspecting the murder is cult-related, the deceased has been identified as one Wale surname unknown. The corpse has been evacuated to the mortuary for autopsy. Investigation is ongoing.”
According to the deceased neighbours, he was ambushed by the armed men on Friday night close to his house along school road, Akenpai, where they blocked him on his way home and forcefully ordered him to drive them in his car to an unknown destination.
The wife of the deceased became frantic when her husband who had called earlier to inform her that he was his way to the house failed to return home on Friday night.
LEADERSHIP also learnt that it was on Saturday morning, when passersby spotted his lifeless body with a single gunshot to the head and arms tied to the back, that the wife got the news that her husband has been killed.
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