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 killed 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.
Saturday PUNCH was told that as 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 killed them
with a machete,
” he said. Students of the university said Aondoaseer
was a member of a rival cult group called
the Red Viper, who 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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