Vigilante nab two for duping residents with gambling tricks in Bayelsa

The Bayelsa State vigilante and volunteers services have arrested two tricksters engaged in obtaining money from unsuspecting pedestrians through poker gambling deceptions at the popular Tombia roundabout market in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

According to sources, luck ran out of the alleged tricksters who are said to be using voodoo to hypnotize passers-by to patronise their game of poker when a victim raised alarm for mysteriously losing huge sums of money to the gang.

Speaking to newsmen, the state vigilante boss, Doubiye Alagba, gave the names of the suspects as John Eshua from Ogbia LGA and John Earnest whose place of birth is yet-to-be identified.

Speaking further,  Alagba explained that from accounts of residents of the area, the suspects who specialise in using card tricks to extort valuables from their victims have been on their radar for several months.

He said “what they do is to trick you with poker cards, using their accomplice who pretend not to know them and lure you into playing the card with them, and immediately you fail, you loose your valuable.

“We have gotten serious complains about the activities of these set of fraudstars along this area and that has been part of the reasons why we have taken the drastic decision to beef up our security architecture in the Tombia Roundabout area.”

The State vigilante chairman, Alagba also disclosed that, as part of efforts to put an end to all forms of criminal activities and insecurity in the popular Tombia roundabout, his office has moved its men to always keep vigil in the area from 6am-10pm daily.

He said, trading along the road or walkway and wrong parking of vehicles by drivers and transport owners will no longer be condoned, as defaulters will have to pay fine when caught.

He said, these steps are all geared towards securing the lives and properties of Bayelsans in that area.

Meanwhile, the suspects has since been handed over to the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Bayelsa State command for further investigation.

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Vigilante nab two for duping residents with gambling tricks in Bayelsa. Vigilante nab two for duping residents with gambling tricks in Bayelsa.