Some suspected cult members, on Tuesday, interrupted
academic activities at the Oba Akenzua Secondary School and the Ihogbe College
in Benin, Edo State.
The prompt intervention of police personnel, however, saved
what could have been a free-for-all, as several pupils were reportedly wounded
with knives and cutlasses by the invaders.
Both schools are adjacent to each other and are located on
the ICE Road, off Wire Road, Benin.
Observers said the teachers and pupils ran in different
directions when the alleged cultists started shooting and attacking the pupils.
According to reports, the supposed cultists were heading
towards a target in the area when some pupils, suspected to be junior members
of a rival cult group, started throwing stones at them.
Thereafter, the cultists stormed the schools and started
attacking any pupil in sight.
One of the pupils was said to have been seriously injured
and was rushed to the hospital.
Two of the suspected attackers, who were arrested by the
police, were crying and insisting that they were innocent.
A resident of the area said cult-related attacks had been on
the rise in recent times.
The Edo State Commissioner for Education, Emmanuel Agbale,
who confirmed the incident, said no student was killed in the attack.
Agbale said policemen were quickly conscripted to the area
and the cultists were chased away.
“The pupils of both schools have always engaged each other
in fights. Security will be beefed up in the area. Plans are also on to merge
both schools. For now, the schools will not be shut down due to the attack,”
the commissioner declared.
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