Kwara Poly Student Shot Dead By Suspected Cult Members

Report reaching us confirmed
that a National
Diploma (ND) II student of
Kwara state
Polytechnic, Ilorin was on
Monday evening shot
death by suspected cultists.
Ngstudents.com gathered
that
the victim was a suspected
member of another
rival cult group.
It was reported that the
victim was shot at a far
distance without any effect
on him, a
development that reportedly
prompted
the assailants to chase and
grab him and then
fired several gun shots on his
head to kill him
and then ran away.
The security guards on duty
were said to have
quickly alerted the police who
immediately came
to the scene of the incident
to carry the remains
of the ND2 student away and
deposit it at the
mortuary of the University of
Ilorin Teaching
Hospital that same monday
night.
The Registrar of the
Polytechnic, Pastor Moses
Salami, who confirmed the
development, said
that since the incident
happened on Mondaythe
men of the Nigeria Police and
that of the
Directorate of the State
Security Service had
been mounting surveillance
on the campus to
check likely reprisal attacks.
“It’s true that after the
staff have closed for
work on Monday around
7.30pm, we learnt that
one ND2 student was shot
dead and the police
was immediately alerted.
“They arrived the scene of
the incident and took
his corpse away to University
of Ilorin Teaching
Hospital. Since then, the
security agencies have
been coming to our campus
to investigate the
incident”, he said.
Also, the Police Public
Relations Officer in Kwara
state, Ajayi Okasanmi,
confirmed the
development, saying
however that he was yet to
be officially briefed.
“Yes, I heard that a student
was killed in the
Kwara state Polytechnic on
Monday, but I’m yet
to be officially briefed”.