Dastardly action…among girls?

Female cultists attack, inject 17-year- old Niger Delta University student with strange substance for shunning membership

SUSPECTED members of a notorious female cult group in the Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University (NDU) in Ammassoma community of Southern Ijaw Council of the State, at the weekend attacked a 17- year-old student over her refusal to accept the offer of membership of the group.

The suspected cult members, who were reportedly led by a final-year student of the Education Department of the Institution known as Annabel, attacked their victim within the Hostel F of the institution and injected her with a strange substance after subjecting her to severe beating and torture.

The victim of the attack is a daughter to a lecturer in the institution and a student of the Economics Department.

While some students claimed the attack on the victims was due to domestic squabbles among room-mates, others claimed the victim ran into troubled waters with the suspected cultists due to her strict Christian way of life and refusal to accept advances to belong to the notorious cult group involved in lesbianism and other vices on campus.

A friend to the victim, who identified herself as Claire, said the victim was attacked at about 4.00a.m. last Tuesday in her hostel room,” adding that, “she was tied to a chair and severely beating by four girls. Her attached hair was forcefully removed and she was injected with substances that made her to behave as if she was mentally deranged for days.

“When the attackers saw that the girl had fainted, they brought her out of the room in the early hours of that day. That was when they were apprehended.”

Reports have it that investigation into the incident was reported to the Students’ Senate Disciplinary Committee and the outcome of the investigation would be made known to the institution’s authority this week.

Initial attempts were allegedly made by some Hostel F executive committee members and friends for the attackers to bribe the victim with N50, 000 as money for hospital bill, to buy her silence over the case.

Contacted on the development, the Public Relations Officer of the Institution, Domo Alagoa, denied knowledge of the involvement of suspected female cultists in the attack.

“It is too early to jump to conclusions over the case. The story is not true as presented to you. It is a case of three roommates against one other room-mate. The case has gone to the Students’ Senate Disciplinary Committee and the members sat last Wednesday. They sat over the case and other cases. We are awaiting official outcome.”

“The outcome will be released to you. But we should not listen to emotional talk on the incident. On the involvement of lecturers and politicians trying to influence the outcome, it is not true. The
Students’ Senate Committee is the highest disciplinary body of students. It will come out with true position,” he said.