Students suspected to be members of a cult severed the heads of two other students of the Abia State University, Uturu, and thereafter used the heads as ‘goalposts’.
According to reports, Ebuka Nwaigbo, a 300 level student of the Department of Estate Management, and Samuel Ethelbert, 300 level student of the Department of Political Science were both members of a cult group known as ‘Mafia’ which has been embroiled in a supremacy battle with another cult group called Burkinafaso for many years.
The beheading of the students is believed to be a revenge attack on the Mafia cult for allegedly killing a top member of the Burfinafaso group last month.
Another student who visited the deceased at the Chi-Doo Lodge along the Uturu-Afikpo road was injured with severe matchete wounds during the attack.
Punch Newspapers spoke to a source who said “last month, one Collins Agwu, a member of Burkinafaso, was gunned down by the Mafia. His colleagues (Burkinafaso) decided to retaliate by killing members of the Mafia.”
“That night they came to the lodge on four motorbikes carrying four persons each and they forced themselves in when one of the students living there came out to buy Indomie Noodles. They beheaded their targets while the third person, their visitor, was seriously wounded.”
“After killing them they carried their heads and bodies in a sack bag and took it to a playground where they (cult boys) normally play football near the school gate and mounted their heads as goalposts.”
Meanwhile, while there has been heavy police presence at the school since the attack, the Abia State Police Public Relations Officer, Ezekiel Onyeke Udeviotu revealed that an investigation had been ordered by the state Commissioner of Police Joshiak Habilah.
He said: “We are willing to invite any member of the public with any useful information that could lead to the arrest of criminals to our office if such a person is afraid of giving the information to police officers.”
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