6 Persons Killed In Cult Clash In Edo, Reporter Attacked

No fewer than 6 persons have been killed and six others missing in the last four days in different parts of Benin City, the Edo State capital, as some suspected members of two secret cults engaged one another in a fierce battle of supremacy.

The cult war was said to have started near Oba Market over issues of ticketing between members of a task force  alleged to have been engaged by the state government and another group in the same area believed to have been engaged by the Oredo Council.

Both groups are said to have belonged to rival cults, Eiye Confraternity, alias “Eiye” and the Black Axe Confraternity, alias “Aye,” at different spots in Benin.

It was gathered, that one of the dead, 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.

The Nation newspaper reporter attacked

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.

Source: Legit.ng