Sunday, February 13, 2011


Ritual killings near campus: LASU students raise the alarm

Agency Reporter


Students of the Lagos State University on Friday raised the alarm over growing cases of ritual killing and armed robbery on the LASU/Iba Road and other communities around their main campus at Ojo.Some of the students told the News Agency of Nigeria that the frequent killings and robberies posed a great threat to their lives and their academic pursuit.





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The speaker of the institution's Students Union Government, Mr. Senapon Ajasa, told NAN that no fewer than 10 people had been killed in the LASU area in the last two months by suspected ritual killers.

The student leader said that the development had thrown the entire university community into panic as students and other people around the campus now lived in fear.

He said, "Everybody, particularly the students, is afraid. Ritual killers who remove body parts of their victims after killing them have made the LASU/Iba Expressway and adjoining communities unsafe.

"They operate from as early as 6 am on that notorious road. On their way to school, students usually find corpses whose body parts have been removed around the campus. It is a scary thing."

Ajasa said that although no student had so far fallen victim, there was a need for the police to take urgent steps to address the feeling of insecurity in the area.

He appealed to the police authorities to declare the LASU/Iba Road a serious crime-prone zone and do all they could to ensure the security of lives in the area.

Another student, Adeyemi Wahab, urged security men in the university to embark on a regular patrol of the area in order to assist the police in restoring normalcy to the communities.

Mr. Mike Orji, a cybercafé operator at the institution, told NAN that the development was affecting social and academic activities on the campus as students were forced to leave for their respective homes before it got dark.

"Students no longer wait after their lectures because of this security issue. Everybody is affected, including our businesses. Only the police and the state government can help us," he said.

LASU Students' Union spokesman, Mr. Agboola Seriki, cal

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What is Fashola doing about this?. This issue has been going on for months and still no concrete plans to solve it.

Disgrace

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Agreed!!

We can't be spending billions of naira for anniversary celebrations then look the other way when it comes to the security of the common man's life and property.

yommyuk:

What is Fashola doing about this?. This issue has been going on for months and still no concrete plans to solve it.

Disgrace

what if this is cult activity cuz you can't rule that out especially considering the location the bodies were discovered.

what if this is cult activity cuz you can't rule that out especially considering the location the bodies were discovered

Whatever it may be, the governor should be on the back of the agencies in charge immediately.

10 bodies over 2 months = 1 a week.

And people are saying why Nigerians in Diaspora prefer staying abroad. In the UK, only one dead body is enough to bring the reigon to a shutdown, not to say 10 in 2 mths.

Human life count for nothing in Nigeria. It is deplorable