The duo, it was gathered were in possession of a coffin with the lifeless bodies of two females, pants and other females wears inside when they forced to open the coffin.
The Story, reliably gathered on Friday that the suspects have been carrying out illicit businesses before meeting their waterloo on Thursday.
Residents went into wide jubilation following their arrest, “Who knows how many girls they would have slaughtered just for the quest for money. I don’t know why some people are so wicked and heartless”, a source said.
Another respondent noted: “Why will you kill your fellow human?
If you are doing good, continue doing good and if you are doing bad, continue doing bad because there is always a reward for everything you do.
“Ladies, you should be careful with the person you make as friend because you don’t know who is who. May God protect us so that we don’t fall into the hands of culprits or miscreants.
“The crowd would have mobbed the boys if not for the intervention of the police. Where did they get the pants and other female items in the coffin?
They expressed hope that the law would take its course to serve as deterrent to others.
The hoodlums were arrested by local vigilantes in Agidiehe quarters in Ogwashi Uku town at about 9.30pm on Thursday night when they were conveying the coffin from their house.
It was learnt that the vigilante and some boys in the area were parading the suspects with the coffin on their heads before the intervention of the Police at Ogwashu Uku.
The development was said to have attracted a small crowd from the neighborhood as women and youths exppressed concern over the activities of the Yahoo boys in the area.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, confirmed the incident, saying that the boys were arrested with the coffin, apparently, for alleged ritual, adding that the command has stepped in for further investigation into the case.
