Cult War: Cultists Beheaded 2 ABSU Students

University officials taking journalists around.

ABIA State University, ABSU, Uturu is located in serene hilly in Uturu community. The community hosts another private University, Greg University and a famous Catholic primary and secondary schools, Maris Schools. It therefore can rightly be described as an academic community.

The community has been quiet and peaceful until last week when there was a horrible development there. Two 300 level students of ABSU were gruesomely beheaded by a cult group.

Another 300 level student was also badly butchered by the same group and he is critically lying ill in a hospital. The dastardly act took place in a private hostel located in an isolated area of the community and surrounded by forest and valley, about 3 kilometres from the University campus.

The assailants said to be members of Bourkina Faso cult group, scaled the high fence of the hostel with a ladder to gain access into the room of the victims, said to be members of another cult group, Mafia.

The victims, Nwigbo Chukwuebuka, a 300 hundred level student of Estate Management and Samuel Ethelbert, a third year student of Political Science were slaughtered and beheaded Saturday night in their hostel.

Umeaforo Chigozirim, also a 300 level Political Science undergraduate was luckier as he was not killed but sustained serious injuries resulting from machete cuts. The gruesome killing was said to be a revenge act the Bourkina Faso group for the death of their leader, called Collins Agwu, alias Biggy, said to have been killed by the Mafia group, who was said to have been buried on the Saturday the two students were beheaded.

This ugly incident threw the University into mourning and great shock. Though cult activities have existed in the University over the years but last week’s gruesome beheading of the two students was outrageous and unprecedented.

Though the incident did not disturb academic activities of the university as the students went on to write their first semester examination, nevertheless many of the students, especially those in year one have been enveloped in fear after the horrifying incident.

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