FIVE persons, including graduating students and ex-students of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, were reportedly murdered in cold blood in a bar near a private hostel in the university town last week. The youths were said to be having a graduation party when a fracas that culminated in the shooting and killing of the victims broke out. One of the parties to the misunderstanding had reportedly escaped from the scene of the mayhem with a bruised ego only to allegedly return with fully armed friends to execute the dastardly act. The Edo State police command has declared that the killings were cult-related but the university authorities claimed they had nothing to do with cultism. The university’s position is understandable because it does not want to be associated with cultism but the police are best suited to determine the nature of a crime as well as the motive based on…
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