Four suspected yahoo boys have died of drug overdose along the Nasco Egei Road of Biogbolo community in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.
The Bayelsa state police command said the unfortunate incident occurred at 12am On Friday, December 2nd, after the intake of two pills in celebration of a mysterious financial breakthrough by the deceased.
The boys died in an apartment rented by one of them, identified as simply Favour, a 19-year-old indigene Of Southern Ijaw LGA.
Confirming the development, Bayelsa state commissioner of police, Benjamin Okolo, said; “they died of drug overdose. It’s quite unfortunate that they administered the drugs themselves. They were five and the one that survived told us they took two pills each and that he took one. This was why the died”.