Suspected cult members stormed the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu on Monday, August 28, leaving no fewer than four students injured.
The cultists attacked a private students’ hostel.
PUNCH reports that the attackers stormed the hostel under the pretext of searching for a stolen laptop.
They were, however, repelled by some occupants, who doubted their claim.
They reportedly returned afterwards in large numbers, calling out the name of a National Diploma student.
In the ensuing confusion, four students were said to have been injured and taken to a hospital for treatment.
It was gathered that the injured students at Lasunwon Lambe Estate attempted to defend the ND student, who had earlier complained of threats from some cult members who wanted to initiate him into their group.
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A witness, who identified himself only as Bayo, said, “When they first came in the afternoon, they said they were searching for a missing item. They said the person that stole it passed through the estate. We engaged them and they failed in their attempt to gain entrance.
“Suddenly, around a few minutes past 9pm, a larger group came and started calling the name of one of us in the hostel to come out. Immediately they called his name, we remembered that he once told us that some people were disturbing him to join a cult. Some of us went out and we asked others to stay with him in the hostel. Four of us were injured after confronting the cult members.”
The President of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria in Lagos State, Dr Saheed Ashafa, lamented that the hostel attacked was predominantly occupied by male Muslim students of the institution.
He noted that the report sent to the MSSN in Lagos State by its LASPOTECH branch indicated that the attackers targeted a Muslim student in the hostel for initiation.
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