The Ogwashi-Uku community, headquarters of Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State has been in tension over rival cult war. Reports noted that more than fifteen youths from Ogwashi-Uku community were reportedly killed by the said gang of suspected rival cult groups.
The said rival cult groups are Aye Black Axe/Aro Bargar confraternity.
According to reliable vigilante source in Ogwashi-Uku who craved anonymity, said that some of the victims were members of Aye cult group. One of the victims simply identified as Bobby was killed at Agidiase quarters in Ogwashi-Uku.
He was said to have been traced to his family house where he was gunned down and left to die in a pool of his blood, while the second victim was shot dead somewhere at Umudei quarters on the afternoon of the same day.
The security operatives who moved in following a tip off, the hoodlums were reported to have escaped before the police and Ogwashi-Uku vigilante group stormed the scene of the crime.
In another development, the President General (PG), Ogwashi-Uku Development Association (ODA), Izu Osamor has lamented the ongoing cult clash in the metropolis, describing it as worrisome.
According to the PG, the deteriorating morals and value system of the time are sone of the issues that have given birth to the situation, saying that it is a clear sign of parental failure.
Osamor, who in a chat with newsmen in Ogwashi-Uku, called for collaborative actions between all stakeholders if the menace must be curbed, argued that the youths need a reorientation as a way of checkmating the evil.
The community leader while stressing the need for security agents to up their game and work towards ridding Ogwashi-Uku of the bad eggs, noted that much is yet to be done to save the situation.
Condemning the barbaric killings as a result of cult clashes, the community president general observed that those who perpetrate the crime should be apprehended and made to face the full wrath of the law.
“But how many times have you heard these youths who were involved in the act arrested? That is the problem. Even before I became the president general of the community, I commenced an action aimed at bringing the madness to an end, but along the way, I found out that it is not as easy as that.
“I feel that it is something all stakeholders need to be involved in. These youths need to be reorientated so that they will know the danger attached to being a member of such cult groups.
“Come to think of it, you train a child up to the higher institutions, then one day, the child is killed just like that without any clear reason other than he is a member of a cult group.
“For me, it is part of the moral decadence that has pervaded our society. Our value systems are wrong and parents are not doing enough to guide their wards in the right direction.
“It is something that is above the community union or association. It is something that all hands need to be on deck for us to checkmate it and bring it to an end”, he said.
