Fubara Places N100m Bounty on Killer Of Rivers DPO

• Kazeem Badmus

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has placed a N100 million bounty on Gift David Okpara Okpolowu, a.k.a. 2-Baba who reportedly killed a Divisional Police Officer, Bako Angbashim, in Odiemudie Community, Ahoada East local government area of the state.

Fubara also declared 2-Baba and all members of his criminal gang wanted, calling on whoever had useful information on how they could be arrested to come forward.

OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the governor also suspended a monarch, Eze Cassidy Ikegbidi, indefinitely for complicity in the murder.

A viral video which surfaced on Friday night showed Angbanshin’s head, hand and private part separated with several deep machete cuts with his killers chanting victory songs while his charted and decomposing remains littered the floor.

Bako was beheaded on Friday with his killer reportedly

Governor Fubara made this known in a statement he signed and issued on Saturday evening and made available to newsmen.

The statement noted that the monarch ceded control of his territory to the notorious David Gift and his gang to freely operate and carry out their criminal activities.

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The statement reads, “Yesterday, 8th September 2023 at about 7.00 pm, I was briefed on the security operations around the Odiemudie Community in the Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state and the gruesome murder of SP Bako Angbashim, the Ahoada Divisional Police Officer, by a bunch of criminals, presently at large.

“S.P. Bako and his team ran into an ambush while returning from their operation where they were attacked by the criminals. Unfortunately, he was shot in the ensuing gunfire, captured and eventually murdered by his captors.

“Credible intelligence from the security agencies traced the entire incident to one Gift David Okpara Okpolowu (a.k.a. 2-Baba) and his criminal gang, who have established camps in the locality and are responsible for the resurgence of violent crimes, including kidnapping and terrorism in Ahoada East Local Government Area of the State.

“As a responsible Government, we cannot fold our arms and allow criminals and crimes to rear their ugly heads and thrive in any part of our State.

“Accordingly, upon the review of the entire incident and the security situation in the affected areas with the security agencies, we have decided on the following measures to bring the murderers of SP Bako to justice and arrest the deteriorating security situation in the Ahoada East Local Government:

“First, the prime suspects, Mr. Gift David Okpara Okpolowu (a.k.a. 2-Baba) and all members of his criminal gang are hereby declared wanted.

“Secondly, a bounty of one hundred million (N100,000,000.00) naira is hereby placed on his head for anyone who gives useful information that would lead to his arrest and prosecution.

“Thirdly, His Majesty, Eze Cassidy Ikegbidi Eze Igbu Akoh II, is hereby suspended indefinitely for acts of complicity in ceding control of his territory to the notorious David Gift and his gang to freely operate and carry out their criminal activities.”