Benin City in Edo State within the last 3 days, as a result
of clashes between rival cults, believed to be the Eiye and
Aiye (Black Axe) confraternities.
It was gathered that the cult war started near Oba Market,
over issues of ticketing members of a task force, alleged to
have been engaged by the state government.
Another group in the same area, is also believed to have
been engaged by the Oredo Council. Both groups are said
to have belonged to rival cults.
One of the dead, it was gathered, had just rounded off his
Master's Degree programme from the University of Benin,
while a community leader from Iyowha area, near the
Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research (NIFOR), has
reported that six persons were missing in the area.
In another development, suspected hoodlums attacked a
reporter with The Nation newspaper in the state, Ben
Ogbemudia, along Eke Street,near St Saviour, Upper
Sokponba Road, Benin City.
According to Ogbemudia, on Monday evening, at about
7.30 pm, he had parked his car along the street where he
had gone to see his family before the New Year's Eve
activities.
In no time, his suspected assailants, comprising three men
whom he identified as Emwanta, Adult and Osaretin,
roared to a stop in a Nissan marked Edo DGE 382 AA,
and attacked him, inflicting deep machete cuts on the
upper arm of his left hand.
He was later rushed to a private clinic where the cut were
stitched and later reported the incident at the St Saviour
Police Station.
When contacted yesterday, the Edo State police public
relations officer (PPRO), DSP Moses Eguavoen, said that
he was expecting a brief from the district police officers in
the affected areas.
Via: Leadership
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