A pregnant woman in Okpanam, near Asaba, Delta State, has been killed by persons suspected to be cultists. Police sources said the pregnant woman, Mrs Alice Okpor, 42, was murdered in cold blood by suspected warring cultists who had clashed close to her farmland. She was said to have been hit by a stray bullet from one of the occult groups while she was working on her farm.
LEADERSHIP SUNDAY reliably gathered that, in the last six weeks, cult-related activities have continued unabated in the area, with rival cult groups clashing almost on a daily basis.
Sources said that the Eiye and Black Axe confraternities have engaged each other in fierce battles to avenge the serial killings of their members in Ubulu-Uku and its environs.
According to sources, a series of killings that has claimed six lives has also triggered renewed apprehension among members of the public, especially in the area.
Deltans have accused the various organs of government, the police, traditional and religious institutions as well as the federal government of lack of commitment in addressing the underlying causes of cult-related violence.
Recently, the cult boys were said to have stormed the house of a journalist, Mr. Dominic Adewole of The Compass in Okpanam. After sporadic shootings, they made away with his belongings including two laptops.
Adewole, while narrating his ordeal, said the cultists stormed his house in the wee hours with battle axes and guns and ordered him out of his room after inflicting several machete cuts on his body.
An informed source said there has been a cult war in Okpanam with no fewer than four persons arrested by security operatives in Asaba. Police spokesman in the state ASP Charles Muka confirmed that cult activities in Okpanam and other parts of the state have assumed a frightening dimension, adding that steps have been taken to put an end to it.
He said the corpse of the pregnant woman has been deposited at the mortuary of a state-owned hospital in Asaba while investigation into the gruesome murder continues.
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Posted: at 21-02-2011 12:31 AM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
brainline at 21-02-2011 01:04 AM (14 years ago) (m)
its jst a shame dat our govt cn nt do d main tin 4 his pple.......may her gentle soul rest in heaven.
Posted: at 21-02-2011 01:04 AM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
Government go still watch your plate after eating. All those psychics that spray bullets in America that end up killin units or perhaps tens of people who blamed it on their government? Or is it the government that asked those guys to join cultism. Abeg make we leave government face ourselfs
Posted: at 21-02-2011 08:19 AM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
ugochuks at 21-02-2011 08:54 AM (14 years ago) (m)
may H.S.R.I.PEACE,,,,SEE PREGNANT MADAM DEY ON HER OWN JEE JEE DEY WORK AND NO BE SAY NA HOUSE OR STREET BUT FARM,see yeye stray bullet,the bullet no see tree go hit, anyway sha, those calling on goverment to do somthn,, any idea as what the goverment should do? just curious
I MISS U WHEN I KNOW U RE MISSIN ME
Posted: at 21-02-2011 08:54 AM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
....and who is the government? Is it Mr. President or governors? Is it not you and I? Why can't our youths shun cultism in schools? Is that one the work of the government to stop the youths from practicing cultism?
Let's all face reality and stop calling government in everything, all the time.
Posted: at 21-02-2011 10:08 AM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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