EKPOMA – The university town of Ekpoma yesterday witnessed another macabre dance in the seemingly never ending debacle of Cultism. This discovery of 6 decomposing bodies at a forest in Ekpoma again demonstrates the high level of lack of respect for human life and the extent to which Cultism has eaten into the fabric of our society.
According to information reaching our news desk, over 50 people were to be initiated into one of the cult groups and that six persons lost their lives in the initiation process under circumstances that remain mysterious.
The initiation process, according to our source, is almost always brutal ordeal that is akin to a skewed Darwinism selection of the fittest and cruel elimination process.
Most of the yet identified bodies are students of the state owned Ambrose Alli University who have been sent to school by their parents to learn. Further investigation reveals that some youths were earlier heard complaining that they were under some sort of pressure to become members of a certain cult group (name withheld). In fact, our source revealed that a certain Osaro Best was among those lured to the initiation ground under the guise of a birthday party and as at press time, it has not been ascertained whether the said Osaro Best is among the dead bodies found.
Osaro Best was said to have put a call through to one of his relatives the night he left home for the birthday party that he doesn’t know where he was being taken and shortly afterwards his line stopped working and all efforts to reach him thereafter proved abortive.
According to reports reaching our news desk, the family home of Osaro Best was attacked by boys suspected to be cultists and at press time it had not yet been ascertained whether the two incidents are connected. But the attackers were said to be looking for Osaro Best whose whereabouts has not been ascertained since he left home for the birthday party.
There is a seemingly irreversible trend among youths relating to cultism as most youths find it fashionable to belong to one cult group or the other. This trend stems largely from peer pressure and a host of other factors ranging from warped societal values through lack of good parenting to poverty and insecurity. To avert a return to the Hobbesian state of nature, where life was brutish, nasty and short, law enforcement agencies must be sincere in their fight against cultism as most of them also belong to one of these cult groups, thereby making a mockery of the fight against cultism.
