Cult clash claims

Source: Xinhua News Agency – CEIS
Publication date: 2002-08-11
Arrival time: 2002-08-12
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LAGOS, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) — At least five people have been killed during a bloody clash between tow rival cult groups in Nigeria’s southern state of Ogun, local media reported Sunday.

The reports said the clash occurred at Mashood Abiola Polytechnic in the state’s capital Abeokuta at the weekend when a cult gang launched a reprisal over the alleged abduction and killing of its member by another cult groups.

Witnesses were quoted as saying that during the clash, guns, axes, machetes, bows and arrows were freely used, bringing the activities of the institution to a halt.

After receiving the report about the incident, the police rushed to the spot to quench the violence and arrested some cult members, the reports said.

The cult practice, which once flew low in universities and colleges as well as middle schools across Nigeria after the government’s crackdown, has been reviving and posed the most dangerous threat to Nigeria’s campuses over the recent years.

Cults have tried to take power in Nigeria’s universities, using a mixture of black magic and violence to intimidate.

Since the early 1990s, the violent cult clashes have killed hundreds in Nigeria’s more than 100 higher educational institutions, which once were regarded as amongst Africa’s finest but degenerated into criminal heaven with armed robbery, drug abuse and cult activities.

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