Barely one week after Damino Damoche, the final year student of
the Lagos State University, Ojo, was killed by suspected cultists in
front of the institution’s gate, another student was Thursday, murdered
by suspected cultists on reprisal attack.
Although
the deceased identified as Karim Abiodun, was reportedly not a student
of LASU, but he was alleged to be a member of Buccaneer confraternity,
whose members were said to be at war with members of the Eiye
confraternity.
Report said the cultists stormed
Karim’s home located on Afolabi street around PPL in Okokomaiko area at
about 4a.m yesterday, from where he was chased to Peoples bus-stop
around Ajagbandi and shot dead.
The late Karim, a
second year student of Economic Education at the Lagos State College of
Education, LACOED, would be the second person to be killed during
reprisal attacks by warring cultists since the death of Damoche.
The
first person shot dead, was identified simply as Kabiru. He was
reportedly killed in the presence of his mother and siblings at their
Abeokuta street home, also around PPL, Sunday night.
The Police as gathered, have arrested a member of a vigilante group in the area in connection with yesterday’s killing.
The
suspect whose identity could not be immediately ascertained, reportedly
admitted to have seen when the late Karim was being chased. He was also
said to have identified one of the assailants .
Meantime, students of other institutions living around PPL have vacated their homes for fear of same fate befalling them.
Following
the recent development, President of the Lagos State University
Students’ Union, Comrade Ibrahim Agomeji, has advised students to vacate
off-campus hostels within PPL, Iba, Casidi, Franklass and Igbo-elerin..
According
to him: “This became imperative as the lives and properties of students
are no longer secured in these off-campus hostels around the
university. It is beyond the powers of the university to provide you
with security in your various off-campus hostels. Since the Police and
the relevant authorities have failed to do this, I advise you return
home to your parents, thereby coming to school from your various homes”,
he said.
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