According to
report at least, 16 students of state-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU),
Ekpoma, have been beheaded in the ongoing cult war ravaging Edo State. Rival
cult war involves high profile kingpins including senior lecturers of the
university.
The
statistics was released by the Police Commissioner, Mr Haliru Gwandu. Briefing
journalists in Benin, Gwandu disclosed that 61 suspects such as armed robbers,
kidnappers, cultists and rapists were arrested in the last three weeks.
But the
Deputy Registrar, Information/Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr.
Edward Aihevba, described the statements credited to the commissioner of police
“as totally false and embarrassing”.
Aihevba said
management of the institution “is horrified by the false news story, making the
rounds in the print, electronic and social media, credited to the Edo State
Commissioner of Police, that three lecturers of the university have been
arrested for alleged cultrelated activities.”
However,
Gwandu pointed out that 17 suspected cultists had been arrested with assorted
arms. The commissioner added that at least 16 students in the institution had
been beheaded during a recent cult war. He said senior lecturers of the
university found to be aiding and abetting cult activities would not go free.
Gwandu promised that his command would continue its zero tolerance on crime in
parts of the state.
He said: “The
university community made a call that cult groups were killing and they killed
so many. At a point two were killed. At a point, they went to inspect a site;
they (the police) discovered more than 14 beheaded students at that particular
time.
There were
some senior lecturers who were arrested with firearms. We are going to arrest
those who have been mentioned and those who are real cultists and charge them
to court. “My anti-cultism unit was there on a distress call on the 17th day of
March 2017.
There was a
notorious fight between a cult groups and incidentally, two students were
beheaded. We dispatched Anti-Cultism Unit to assist the division. “Having gone
there, we were given an intelligent report that one of those who were arrested
initially and taken to prison was sighted around the school.
The Anti-Cultism
Unit went into action; the name of the person they sighted was Dennis Agidi.
Some of his mates were in prison but he was sighted outside and he was seen in
a meeting with other cult members.” Meanwhile, Aihevba debunked the
commissioner’s statements.
He said: “We
hereby state unequivocally that Ambrose Alli University has had no issue of
cult-related activities since the inception of the administration of Prof.
Ignatius Onimawo and his management team.
There has
been no report from the Police Force or any individual or groups for that
matter concerning any incident of cultism or cult-related activities. “The
Police Commissioner and his team could not have arrested any staff of the
university, or found 14 students dead and not make a report, formal or
informal, to the authorities of Ambrose Alli University.
“The Police
Commissioner, by his pronouncement, has opened the way for damaging and
libellous display of falsehood in the social media. The university management
hereby enjoins students of Ambrose Alli University to disregard this false,
distressing and embarrassing report in the media, fuelled by officers of the
law…
“We hereby
demand that the Edo State Police Commissioner retracts his statement and
apologise to Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma within 48 hours, failing which the
university will not hesitate to institute legal proceedings.
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