Last week, www.otowngist.com wrote extensively about cultism in Imo State campuses, of high or tertiary institutions, enumerating their modus operand, their goals and equally marshalling out best ways that www.otowngist.com thinks will be productive in eradicating such in our tertiary institutions.
I was mild and tender with my pen because I was writing in a tone of student activism. I was not nursing any intention to condemn anyone but I wrote to correct them and possibly commend them for taking corrections from me. That was not to be as two days after my heart rending article was published, those hoodlums broke lose again by raping two girls at a notorious avenue along IMSU/Aladinma axis. Www.otowngist.com can vividly tell the public that bishop’s lounge, located along the aforementioned axis is fast becoming a nuisance or menace not to the school alone but to the state in general as many unthinkable atrocities have been going on there.
Before now, the Avenue has been nick named “No go Area” by street boys. Bishop’s Court is thus posing a threat to innocent inhabitants of that geographical area. The boy that was shot dead at Douglas road Owerri, few weeks ago, we learnt lives at Bishop Court quarters. The boy who incidentally was also a member of a fraternity was shot by a rival cultist. One who is not a “member” dares not go close to that quarter. From 6PM, the environment around that side is always deadly and bloody. The area houses holy places of worship and men of God but has turned into a den for demons and his agents.
www.otowngist.com is not concerned about who is a cult member or not but it is my utmost concern when one poses a threat to his fellow student simply because he belongs to a group of rogues, street urchins, drug addicts, peddlers and miscreants. When did freedom of movement become restricted to Bishop’s Court quarters that innocent girls will be victimized by groin driven rapists while exercising their freedom? The security agents in the state continue to fold their arms as situations continue to deteriorate in and around us. They are more concerned with extorting money from motorists along the major roads than patrolling and surveillance for these hoodlums.
If we must stop armed robbery and kidnapping in the state, then we must nip them in the bud, with our tertiary institutions as our starting point to checkmate the other societal ills or crimes.
