The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu has set up a panel to probe the beheading of two students of the Abia State University, Uturu, by suspected cultists last Saturday.
After the students were beheaded, the cultists reportedly used the heads of their victims as goalposts in a football match in a flagrant display of impunity.
The governor said the report of the investigative panel would help to fish out those behind the brutal killings.
The governor, who spoke through a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Godwin Adindu, on Tuesday in Umuahia, the state capital, decried the killings, which took place outside the university premises.
Ikpeazu urged parents to educate their children properly on the danger of cultism before sending them to the university.
He said, “It is disheartening that students will leave their educational pursuit to engage in cultism and other vices in school.
“In order to forestall such ugly occurrences, schools should keep the full data of students during admission in case of eventualities.”
He regretted that the victims of the cult attacks lived about four kilometres outside the university campus, calling upon security agencies around the university community to live up to their responsibility by preventing such ugly occurrences.
Meanwhile, students of the ABSU have continued their ongoing first semester examinations.
Effort of our correspondent to get the comments of the university’s spokesman on the beheading of the students proved abortive as calls put through to his mobile did not connect.
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