Four Dead as Cult Groups Terrorise Calabar

CALABAR –
RESIDENTS of Calabar, Cross River State capital, have been living in fear in the last three days as a result of the activities of two rival cult groups.

It was gathered that about four persons have been killed so far in cult related clashes, though the Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, Mr. Hogan Bassey,  put the number at two, adding that the clashes were between suspected members of the Vikings and KK cult groups.
On Monday, a group suspected to be junior members of KK, which goes by the name Mafs, broke into the house of a journalist, Mr. Frank Inyang, an Assistant Director in the Ministry of Information, whose wife gave birth few weeks ago, destroyed all the home appliances and almost killed his brother, who only survived because he escaped through the window.
At Nelson Mandela, opposite the famous Luna Nite club, the cult group attacked an elderly man, who operates a shop, collected his handset and the money he made from sales. They also inflicted machete cuts on him.

He said that the group, numbering over 50, and armed with guns, axes, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, took advantage of the black out in the area to attack unsuspecting residents and shot sporadically.
According a source, the cult war between the cadet wing of Vikings, known as Skylo and the Mafs, had left four persons dead, including the father of a suspected member of one of the groups living on Beecroft Street in the state capital.

The groups also destroyed vehicles belonging to innocent motorists at different locations in the state capital.
Meanwhile, Inyang said that the Police was on top of the situation and had arrested the kingpin of one of the groups, who he said had made useful statement to the force.

By Johnbosco Agba