By Charles Igbo
The headless corpse of the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of Ahoada, Rivers State, has still not been found about three weeks after he was gruesomely murdered.
The DPO, SP Bako Amgbashim, was gruesomely murdered by members of Iceland, a dreaded cult group which has held the Ahoada Local Government Area hostage.
Bako had led his team to an operation in a forest, identified as the base of the cultists who, it was reported, gave the impression that they had repented, and wanted to surrender, but it turned out a lie as the DPO and his team were ambushed and faced torrents of gunshots. The team responded, but sadly, they were outgunned, especially, and had ran out of bullets and ammunition.
While members of the DPO’s team made good their escape, he was not lucky as he was captured by the criminals. When they captured him, they killed him in a most gruesome manner. They cut off his head and manhood and decapitated other parts of his body.
In a grisly video they made of his body, and shown on Whatsaap, they generously showed the cut-off head of the DPO and manhood where they also flashed a torchlight on his face and taunted him. “DPO see you now. No be you be this?”
Security Operatives said they were unable to access the forest that night to get the DPO’s body because the forest was very dark for any operation. But, apparently, till date, they have not been able to retrieve his body.
This was disclosed by an unnamed member of the cult group who was arrested a few days ago. He was arrested by youths in the area who are outraged over what their communities have been reduced to by the cult group. On arrest, they had put a tyre over his head and were about to lynch and burn him when he was rescued by Security Operatives who, obviously, wanted him alive to help with their investigations.
He spoke like a parrot, and said he has human feelings, and swore on a number of times in God’s name. He confessed he was part of the group which ambushed the DPO and his team, but said he was not there when he was killed. Asked where the body of the DPO was buried, he told the Security Operatives: “I Will not lie to you, I don’t know where he was buried.” Pressed to say what happened, where he was when the DPO was brought to where he was slaughtered, he said he was across the river.
He, also, told the Security Operatives why it was easy for them to capture the DPO. He said they first killed the DPO spiritually through the help of a native doctor in Ogoni who was contacted by the leader of the cult group, Gift David Okpala Okpolowu, popular as 2Baba.
He said: “I will not lie. When they killed the DPO, I was not there. I was across the river. I will not lie. I have a conscience.
“When they brought the Rivers DPO, I did not see him. I swear. I don’t know where they buried him. But I know where they brought him from.
“2Baba has over 40 guns. He calls the person who supplies gun to him. But I don’t know him.”
An enraged Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, placed N100m ransome on the head of 2Baba. He said the money would go to whoever gives information that would lead to the arrest of 2Baba for the gruesome murder of DPO Bako Amgbashim.
