CULTISTS CAUGHT IN OAU

On Thursday last week, two persons were paraded around campus, bearing cardboards that read: I AM A CONFIRMED CULTIST. The identity was not stamped on them for fashion sake; it was stamped on them after the union claimed to have carried out its own thorough investigation. Besides, the ‘confirmed cultist’ later on, with their mouth confessed to being cultist, they particularly confessed to being members of Black Axe Confraternity.
The entire story began when a one of the cultists, Ese Fregene, an extra student of the History department, approached a Part II student with the intention of making the young man their newest initiate. However, the young man that was approached smelled a dead rat. The intended-initiate alerted Goddey, and in turn, Goddey alerted Osemele who took up the case with assistance of some members of the Security committee. Prior to this time, Ese had invited the intended-initiate to a party in town, which the latter turned down.
It is important to mention that Ese had a record of crime for which he had been declared wanted by the union. The crime for which Ese was earlier declared wanted is that he went to somebody’s house where he beat the person and stole his phone and laptop. After a number of brilliant moves by the union, Ese was later on apprehended by Osemele, with the aid of some other member of the union. He was caught on the basis of his previous criminal record. It was later that the crime Ese had committed was linked with cultism. Ese eventually gave the cue that led to the arrest of his fellow cultist, Phil Odiah, a graduate of Dramatic Arts. When Phil was to be arrested in his house in town, he had already gotten a glimpse of the union personnel that were coming to capture him. On sighting them, Phil jumped down from three-story building in a ploy to escape from the long arms of the law. However, he was eventually caught.
When Osemele was interviewed by SOCIOSCOPE, he said he did not know about the arrest of the third member of the cult. But according Adelu James (BOBBY), the last member of the Black Axe fraternity was also apprehended in town. This last member escaped from the office where he was locked in the union building when the union executive went to the school gate area to intervene in a clash between the some students of OAU and the Nigerian Police Force. The face-off between students and the Police Force was triggered by the high rate of Police brutality to OAU students, especially those that are resident in town.
At the time the cultists were paraded by some union officials, the Students’ Union’s PRO, Bobby raised a pertinent issue about the fact that cultism thrives more in the Niger-Delta. He gave the example of the Killing of Afrika by Efosa, an Edo state indigene.
The cultists were subjected to the conventional Serious Maximum Shi-shi (SMS) of the union. At this juncture, it is imperative that it is mentioned that Ese appeared to have been more resilient in suffering that Phil. This threw a number of issues among spectators. People were wondering if the statutory SMS of the union will bring an end to any trace of cultism on this land. More so, at their initiation, cultists are subjected to punishments that are more gruesome than Great Ife’s SMS.
At the end of the whole show, the union leaders said that the culprits will be handed over to the school authority who will then take the appropriate action.