THERE was pandemonium on Sunday night at
Ekuigbo, Ughelli in Ughelli Local Government Area of Delta
State as a result of a shootout by suspected members of
two rival cult gangs leading to the death of two gang
members from both sides.


Commercial activities were grounded as shops hurriedly
locked up in fear of reprisal attacks by the cultists and
wanton arrest by the police and other security agents in
the town as a result of the killings.

The incident which occurred at about 9pm on Sunday night,
occurred in front of Tozak Hotel, located along the Ughelli-
Warri road, Ekuigbo.

It was gathered that both victims died on the spot while
gang members of one of the casualties fled the scene with
the remains of their colleague.
Sunday’s killing is the 4th in 5 days in what has been
termed as a renewed cult war that has engulfed Ughelli
and its environs leaving residence at the mercy of these
cultists while the security agencies seem helpless in
combating the scourge.

As at 9:34pm when Vanguard visited the scene of the
incident, the remains of one of the victims in his late 20s
was still in the middle of the road while members of the
police from Ughelli ‘A’ Division and the local vigilante
popularly referred to as Bakassi were seen within and
outside the hotel premises investigating the incident.

“Victim is a wanted hit man”- BAKASSI
According to a member of the vigilante at the scene of the
incident, the victim died on the spot after he was shot at
close range at the back of his head with a shotgun.

He said: “This guy has been on our wanted list for awhile
now. He is a hit man who has been the brain behind most
of the cult related killings in Ughelli of recent.”

Meanwhile, a food vendor, who sells directly opposite the
hotel where the incident occurred, gave the name of the
victim as Ovigue whose dad operates a record store along
Market Road, Ughelli.

She said: “We were all standing here attending to
customers when suddenly we heard gunshots with two
persons on the ground.

“While melee ensued, friends of one of the shot victims,
carried him and fled through Ataverhe Street, while friends
of the second casualty (Ovigue) absconded, leaving him in
a pool of his own blood.”

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Oga ooooooooo

Good for them.. They caused their undoings

When there are no reasonable jobs to do.