No fewer than four suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo Yahoo Boys were on Friday reported dead after an overdose of strange illicit drugs along the Nasco Egei Road of Biogbolo community in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
Confirming the incident, the Bayelsa State Police Command said it happened at about 12 am on Friday, after the intake of two pills in celebration of a mysterious financial breakthrough by the deceased.
Newsmen gathered that they died in the home rented by one of them known as Favour.
One Melvin, who claimed to be a friend to one of the deceased, spoke with newsmen as they were trying to secure the release of the corpse of one of the victims, Favour, a 19-year-old indigene of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.
“We believe that they were poisoned,” he claimed without any further explanation.
According to Melvin: “We are here at Ekeki Police Station in the company of Favour’s father to secure the release of the corpse for burial, but it is proving difficult after swearing to an affidavit. We gathered that they ate food they ordered and was delivered by a logistics motorbike and they died. One of them who was in the toilet, however, survived because he did not eat from the meal.”
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