The Benue State Police Command has reportedly arrested a suspected cultist over the murder of one Oketa Simon, a 300 level Mass Communication undergraduate of Benue State University.
Simon, also a suspected cultist, was shot dead on the 6th of November, 2018, in a farm opposite Rahama Clinic Logo II Makurdi. The Police arrested 18-year-old Samuel Ochoechi, a non student linked to the crime.
The suspect during investigation, confessed to have conspired with three others namely; Bem Uper aka Movement, Viper and Chemical, all members of the Red Confraternity and killed the deceased who is said to be a member of the Black Confraternity over a missing Jean trouser.
While effort was ongoing to arrest his accomplices, the said Bem Uper aka Movement, a 400 level Theatre Arts undergraduate of same University, was hacked by rival cult group in retaliation.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, November 7, beside Kyabiz Filling Station opposite Benue University second gate. Effort is ongoing to arrest all those involved in both killings. They would be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.
Samuel’s friends have taken to Facebook to mourn his death.
The Federal Government negotiating team has appealed to the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to return to the negotiating table, while denying that it has proposed the imposition of N350,000 and N500,000 as tuition fees to be paid per annum by undergraduates. Speaking with newsmen in Lagos, weekend, Chairman of the team, Dr. Wale Babalakin, dismissed the figures as not only incorrect and contradictory, but also a figment of the imagination of ASUU officials peddling them around the country. He said: “We do not know from where ASUU got the figures that it has been peddling around the country. Aside from the fact that our committee has no power to impose fees on students, we are at a loss regarding the source of the said figures.” Babalakin disclosed that while the committee regarded dialogue with ASUU as the most effective way of resolving contentious issues bordering on the industrial dispute, it currently had little choice but to respond to “all...
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