A cult war in the Benue State
University, Makurdi, has claimed the life of a 21-year student of the
Department of Geography, Solomon Aondoaseer, who was gruesomely murdered
along with his girlfriend on Wednesday.
Aondoaseer and his girlfriend, whom the
police identified as a food vendor in the area where the student lived,
were hacked to death in front of a private hostel where he lived.
The girlfriend identified as Doofan
Agbaja, was said to have become a fatal victim of a war she knew nothing
about when she spent the night at Aondoaseer’s room.
the attack took place, the two victims screamed for help but no one dared to come to their rescue.
The Police Public Relations Officer in
the state, Mr. Moses Yamu, who confirmed the incident, said they did not
kill them inside the house but took them outside.
“The assailants pulled them out of the
compound to an open ground in front of the house and hacked them to
death with machetes,” he said.
Students of the university said
Aondoaseer was a member of a rival cult group called the Red Viper, who
had had a running battle for supremacy with the Black Axe members in the
campus.
Yamu said five suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing.
The suspects were identified as Paul
Adum (aka Reborn), Thaddeus Ukaaku (aka Waters), Damian Swem (aka
Dammy), Terkumbur Gber (aka Shanke) and Teryila Aondona (aka Nasco).
The PPRO said they have also confessed
to the crime and claimed that they killed the victim because he belonged
to a rival group.
Benue State has seen an upsurge of killing by campus cultists in recent times.
Two weeks ago, two students were gunned
down by suspected cultists in front of the Benue State Polytechnic,
Ugbokolo, around 8pm on September 28.
In June, students of the Federal
University of Agriculture, Makurdi, and a security man attached to a
private students’ hostel in the school were killed by suspected
cultists.
Also in July, suspected cultists shot and killed a retired policeman and his son in Makurdi.
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