Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has approved the suspension of the Paramount Ruler of Swali Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area, HRH Wilcox Seiyefa Job, over the involvement of his sons in cult-related activities. Governor Diri, in a statement on Wednesday by the Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Mrs Ebiuwou Koku-Obiyai and Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief Thompson Amule, stated that the suspension is due to the traditional ruler’s inability to show leadership expected of his position in the fight against crime and cultism amidst credible intelligence that two of his sons are involved in cult activities in the community.

He said the suspension took immediate effect.

Daily Trust recalled that in the recent past, there is an upsurge in cult-related violence and killings in the community as rival groups are said to engage themselves in supremacy battle.

The statement read in part: “The Commissioner of Police has been directed to declare the two royal sons and all those involved in cultism in Swali wanted. All those involved are to be arrested for investigation and prosecution.”