{"id":3863,"date":"2025-05-05T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2025-05-05T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:38:08","slug":"police-arrest-killers-of-gov-diris-inlaw-traditional-ruler-in-bayelsa-suspected-vandal-of-tebedaba-brass-trunkline-in-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/police-arrest-killers-of-gov-diris-inlaw-traditional-ruler-in-bayelsa-suspected-vandal-of-tebedaba-brass-trunkline-in-police-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest Killers of Gov. Diri\u2019s Inlaw, traditional ruler in Bayelsa  \u2026suspected vandal of Tebedaba-Brass trunkline in police custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By David Owei ,Baylesa<\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested killers of 50 years old, Hon. Odeinyefa Ogbolosingha, Inlaw to the Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri and two others amongst them is the Paramount Ruler of the Kalaba Community and Chairman of the Community Development Committee (CDC), HRH Kolibo Francis Amabelimo and Samuel Oburo in Kalaba community of Yenagoa Local Government area of the State.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1211\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1211\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot_20250114-172934_1-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot_20250114-172934_1-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot_20250114-172934_1.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IGP Kayode E<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hon. Odeinyefa Ogbolosingha, the Paramount Ruler of the Kalaba Community and Chairman of the Community Development Committee (CDC), HRH Kolibo Francis Amabelimo and Samuel Oburo were murdered in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Police however yesterday confirmed that the deceased were allegedly murdered by three persons including one Gideon Atama,32 years, Bethlehem Nwanlia,49 years and Clever Ovo,33 years.<\/p>\n<p>The State Commissioner of Police, Francis Idu, in a media interactive session in Yenagoa, confirmed that while one of the suspects identified as Perekebi Nwanlia is deceased, Gideon Atama and Bethlehem Nwalia are still at large.<\/p>\n<p>He however confirmed that one of the suspects, Clever Ovo, who is in their custody, has confessed that they were members of the notorious Endurance Amagbein Gang. He noted that the leader of the gang, Endurance Amagbein has since been declared wanted by the Nigerian Army over the alleged killing of 16 soldiers at Okwuamam community in Ughelli South in Delta State sometimes in the year 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CP, another member of the gang, Gideon Atama, was arrested with a mobile phone and putting on a army camouflage uniform well kitted like a soldier, \u201cupon a close check on the phone, \u201cpictures of assorted riffles and voice notes of their previous operations were unraveled. They also went further to mention sponsors in the vandalization of installations and facilities in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also the Police attached to the Labrado Security House boat at Igbikiba in Southern Ijaw Local Government area of Bayelsa State arrested a 20 years old boat captain, Danile Williams, involved in alleged cases of pipeline vandalization.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Police, Daniel Williams, is allegedly involved in the recent attack on Tebedaba-Brass trunkline at lascogbene community in Southern Ijaw Local Government council. The 18 inches trunkline is operated by the OandO which supplies crude oil to the Brass terminal.<\/p>\n<p>The arrested Daniel Willaims, who hails from Egbematoro community in Southern Ijaw but residing at Sagana community in Brass Local Government area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Police, \u201cDaniel Williams was contacted by the suspected and wanted Endurance Amaegbein to convey and deliver pipeline vandalization equipment such as two filing machines, five blades, five cutters, two machetes, five rechargeable head lamps, two Itel phones , two Radio sets, food stuffs and toiletries to enable him perpetrate his oil bunkering plans, despite the riots Act been read to the security Agencies operating in Niger Delta by the President and commander in chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Ahmed Tinubu. The suspect will be charged to court soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By David Owei ,Baylesa Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested killers of 50 years old, Hon. Odeinyefa Ogbolosingha, Inlaw to the Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri and two others amongst them is the Paramount Ruler of the Kalaba Community and Chairman of the Community Development Committee (CDC), HRH Kolibo Francis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1873,2495,2497,2494,2496],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime","tag-allegedly","tag-deceased","tag-murdered","tag-paramount","tag-vandalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}