{"id":110546,"date":"2019-04-25T10:08:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T09:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110546"},"modified":"2019-04-25T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T09:08:50","slug":"police-reacts-as-vikings-black-axe-cult-groups-clash-in-uniuyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110546","title":{"rendered":"Police reacts as Vikings, Black Axe cult groups clash in UNIUYO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Police-demote-six-officers-dismiss-nine-See-Names.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The police command in Akwa Ibom, on Wednesday confirmed report of a cult clash between the Black Axe and Vikings Confraternities at the University of Uyo campuses.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Odiko MacDon, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Uyo, said the police were aware of the incident and that normalcy had returned to the campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Police is trying to meet with the management of the university to strategise on how to tackle the menace and ensure adequate security of the university,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A student of the university, who preferred anonymity, lamented incessant attacks from cult groups apparently from outside the varsity campuses.<\/p>\n<p>He said that one student was killed in the afternoon on Tuesday at the main campus, while three students were killed at the permanent site of the university at about 9pm same day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the last matriculation that held on Wednesday April 17, there were shoot-outs. During the matriculation there were clashes between cult groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust yesterday a student was shot dead during a clash between two cult groups at the Annex campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard that other three students were shot dead last night at the Main Campus at Nwaniba, making it four dead persons at the campuses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking, Mr Boniface Bassey, a students of Faculty of Arts called on the state government to intervene in the development.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that the school management should bring plain-cloth security personnel to secure the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Bassey further called on management of UNIUYO to fish out perpetrators of the clashes for prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers with mufti should come into the campuses and work with the school security to fish out the perpetrators,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Blossom Okorie, Director of Information, University of Uyo confirmed the incident but said she was not in the position to speak further on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reported the matter to the police and I cannot comment on matter,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Eniefiok Essien, was the only person to speak on the issue.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police command in Akwa Ibom, on Wednesday confirmed report of a cult clash between the Black Axe and Vikings Confraternities at the University of Uyo campuses. The Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Odiko MacDon, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Uyo, said the police were aware of the incident and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[11731,61,6974],"class_list":["post-110546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-cultism","tag-police","tag-uniuyo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}