12 Suspected Yahoo Boys in Police Net, Over Newborn Baby Buried Alive In Rivers
Twelve suspected internet fraudsters (Yahoo boys) have been arrested for allegedly burying a newborn baby alive for ritual purpose in rivers state.
Police and vigilance team arrested them in a hotel, hours after twenty suspected fraudsters had converged at the Eagles Island Waterfront in Andoni.
While converging at the Waterfront, they chanted incantation before they moved to a hotel. Residents who watched them at the Waterfront alerted the community’s vigilance team and the police.
Chairman of the vigilance team, Victor Ohaji said on arrival at the Waterfront, they opened up an area dug and covered by the suspects, and found inside a dead baby.
Police later tracked the suspects to a nearby hotel, and arrest 12 of them, while others escape.
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Ohaji said: “This morning, one of my brothers called me that some yahoo boys are doing some incantation at Eagle Island Waterfront, called Andoni sand field. Immediately I called by boys and we moved. When we got to the place the boys had left.
“I asked my brother to show me the point where he saw the boys. He showed me. When I got there, I discovered that they dug the ground and covered it. I have to dig that spot to know what they buried there. When we dug the place, we a dead baby.
“It was a baby boy. A very handsome boy. I have to call the Station Officer of Eagle Island immediately, to inform him. He in turn called the DPO in charge of the area. We all went in search of the boys behind the act. We moved from hotel to hotel to check if we would see them.
“While we were moving, we saw them coming out from one hotel. Immediately they saw us coming down from our car they started running. We, the police and Neighbourhood watch, we chased them and arrested some of them. We took them to the station with the dead baby.
“When we got to the station, one of the suspects started shouting that his father is a Major General in the Nigerian Army, and nothing would happen even if they buried an adult. He said this is just a baby and we are disturbing.”
