Wanemi Omubo, the head of the Bobos cult, was assassinated by some of his gang members who wished to take advantage of a change in leadership, according to the Bayelsa State Police Command.
During a conversation with a few journalists in his Yenagoa office on Monday, Mr. Francis Idu, the commissioner of police for Bayelsa State, revealed the information.
Originating from Nembe in the Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, the late Omubo was also a recipient of the Presidential Amnesty Program and the state’s head of Phase 2 Amnesty beneficiaries.
His murder on Thursday, April 24, along Goodnews Street in the Azikoro neighbourhood of Yenagoa was still unsolved, with suspicions being pointed at competing cult organisations until the police made their information public.
Additionally, some foreign mercenaries were believed to have carried out the murder in reprisal for earlier deaths that he had reportedly ordered.
According to Idu, the Bobos cult group was engaged in an intra-cult struggle, and the individuals responsible for the murders wanted to benefit from a change in leadership.
He reassured citizens that the state’s cult executions would stop, emphasising that despite the late Omubo’s criminal history and reputation as a cult leader, his gang members murdered him.
The commissioner also revealed, without providing specifics, that the police had no choice but to release him after detaining him for unlawfully possessing guns.
Idu said, “95 per cent of intelligence available to the police showed that he died due to intra-cult rivalry about leadership struggle. They took him out and made it look like an intercultural rivalry to profit from his death.
“It is on good authority that the deceased has been involved in nefarious activity. The last altercation with the police was over the issue of illegal gun possession.
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“He was controversially influenced to be let off the hook, and that is why I have always said when you influence the release of a criminal off the hook, you are building a disastrous effect.”
Idu further said that nine people had been taken into custody on suspicion of cultism, abduction, armed robbery, unauthorised firearm possession, and murder.
In one of the instances, Mohammed Adamu, a 50-year-old Gombe State native, and Adiamakubo Orubo, 37, were detained in connection with the alleged abduction of Ashiru Ishiaku, a 26-year-old Kano State native, and his tricycle on April 29, 2025.
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David Ngo, 36, a resident of Brass Local Government Area and a member of the infamous Islanders cult group, was also detained in connection with the suspected stabbing death of Goodwill Ovuru at Agudama-Ekpetiama Community, Yenagoa Local Government Area, on April 16, 2025.
At Onopa Community also in Yenagoa Local Government Area, on Monday, Daniel, 28, was arrested by the police for an alleged armed robbery attack on one Amarachi Emeachi at her residence around Revenue House, Onopa.
According to the Police Commissioner, “a group of four men armed with guns dispossessed her of her Redmi phone valued at N180,000.”
He further stated that, “On the 4th of May, 2025, one Endurance Odambe Chinedu, 24, from Ndokwa-East Local Government Area of Delta State was arrested at Agbia community in Yenagoa at 1.00 pm with 10 live cartridges.”
