Weeks after Dowen College student’s death, Osun varsity student shot, set ablaze for refusing to join cult
Anthony Iwuoma
Barely few weeks after a 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni was reportedly beaten to death by some students at Dowen College in Lekki, Lagos State, for refusing to join a cult, a final year student of the Osun State University, Victor One, has suffered a similar fate.
However, unlike Sylvester, he survived the ordeal and is now bedridden.
Victor, a Political Science student, was allegedly shot and matcheted by suspected cultists, who later ablaze him for refusing to join a cult.
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He was, however, rescued and rushed to a hospital for treatment.
The authorities of the university has called for the arrest of the suspected cultists.
In a statement in Monday, the university’s Public Relations Officer, Ademola Adesoji, confirmed the incident, adding that Victor is a part-time final year Political Science student of the school.
The statement read: “We noticed that Victor was absent for his final paper in the afternoon and decided to contact his parents.
“It was later discovered that he was attacked by unknown cultists in the early hours of Saturday.
“Victor was shouting that he was not joining their cult group while they continued to hit him with cutlasses, hard stones and attempted to burn him, partially succeeding before he was eventually rescued.
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“The university security unit is currently working with the Police to ensure the culprits are exposed and brought to book. The cultists must be arrested.”
Cultism has done incalculable harm to the university system in Nigeria and posed great threat to pursuit of education.
It has also recently crept into secondary schools, as evidenced in the brutal killing of Sylvester Oromoni whose recent killing in the Lagos school sent chilling shock waves across the country, resulting in indefinite shutdown of the school by the Lagos State government, pending outcome of investigations.
