our suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as ‘Yahoo Boys’ were confirmed dead on Friday after an overdose of strange illicit drug on Nasco Egei Road, Biogbolo community of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
According to the police, the victims took the drugs around 12am on Friday, as they were celebrating a financial breakthrough in an apartment rented by one of them, identified as Favour.
One Melvin, who was said to be a friend to one of the victims, told journalists that they were trying to secure the release of the corpse of one of the victims, Favour, 19 year-old and an indigene of Southern Ijaw local government area of the State.
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He said, “We believe that they were poisoned,” but he could not explain who and how they were poisoned.
Melvin added, “We gathered that they eat a food they ordered which was delivered by a logistics motorcycle and they died. One of them who was in the toilet, however, survived because he did not eat from the meal.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Benjamin Okolo, confirmed the death of the four youths and attributed the death to drug overdose.
“They died of drug overdose. It is quiet unfortunate that they administered the drug themselves. They were five and the one that survived told us that they took two pills each and that he took one. This was why they died,” the CP said.
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