On Tuesday 28th November, The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Central zone, strongly condemned the killing of a final year law student in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, during the Zone B election of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS).
The victim, Magam Elvis who was a student of the University of Uyo was shot dead by suspected rival cultists, who came as delegates for the election that was held at the premises of the Federal University of Otuoke.
Other victims sustained various degrees of injuries as rival cult groups engaged in a supremacy battle wielding guns, machetes, axes and other weapons.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Asuquo Amba, arrested some of the suspects with arms including the Bayelsa NANS leader, Perewari Benjamin, a 400-level student of the state-owned Niger Delta University, Amassoma, who was paraded on Monday at the state command’s headquarters in Yenagoa with the other suspects.
Chairman of IYC, Central Zone, Mr. Tari Porri, frowned at the act of students bearing arms in the name of cultism, described the violence in the NANS election as an aberration and embarrassment to the real essence of education. He said:
"The IYC under my leadership in this zone will not tolerate activities relating to cult wars or inter-communal crisis. We will not tolerate anybody coming to disturb the already existing peace in the state.
“If anyone is found wanting, we will mobilise the entire law-abiding Ijaw youths against the person. Youths should be law-abiding. They should not partake in organisations that will not bring honour to the state or organisation that will bring disrepute to the ijawland”.
While advising the youths to identify with meaningful ventures that would bring joy and progress to the Ijaw nation, Porri, said no election was worth the life of any youth.
“We are appealing to the entire youths in the central zone to be law-abiding and to be serious with their lives instead of engaging in vices that will destroy them.
“As the leader of Ijaw youth central zone, I appeal to students to stay clear of cultism and other activities that will destroy them and bring disrepute to the Ijaw nation”.The arrested undergraduates are charged for murder, robbery and Cultism.
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