‎Operatives of Operation Puff Adder of the Bayelsa State Police Command and Nigerian Immigration Office, Festac Town, Lagos, have rejected a bribe of N7 million from George Idumangi, who has been arrested for the murder of Richard Ekpebu, a Bayelsa estate agent.

‎Idumangi allegedly offered a N4 million bribe to immigration officers so they would not hand him over to the police, and later offered the police N3 million to delete a certain file from his phone.

‎It was gathered that Idumangi was arrested on Monday by men of the Nigerian Immigration Service in Lagos when he went to collect his processed International Passport.

‎According to a senior officer who narrated how the suspect offered N4m to evade arrest by the immigration, “But they stood their ground and rejected the money. He also offered them two million Naira to allow him to delete a file from his new mobile phone before he would be handed over, but they also rejected the move.

‎“In desperation, he offered three million Naira for the phone to be destroyed and not handed over to the team of Bayelsa Police personnel, but they still refused.”

‎Upon arrest, the suspect was also said to have attempted to bribe the Operation Puff Adder with N3m but he was arrested, and his mobile phone and recently procured International Passport are in the custody of OPA and he will soon be flown back to Yenagoa.

‎Other suspects in the murder are Victor Shadrack, popularly known as Doggy, Insurance and Miss Victory Benard Henry, who received one million for her role in the killing.

‎Confirming the incident, the spokesman of the Bayelsa State Police Command, SP Musa Mohammed saiYes, he offered them the bribe.”