Palpable tension enveloped residents of Eket last week when two rival cult groups engaged each other in a fight of revenge and supremacy.
The fight between a cult group known as the LOTUS and another known as the LION has so far claimed five lives.
A reliable source who pleaded strict anonymity said trouble started Friday last week in a night club (name withheld) along Hospital Road, Eket.
One of the cultist, our source revealed, met a member of a rival cult group at the club that night. They both had previous issues to settle, so fighting broke out; one of them sustained serious injury on his head but managed to escape.
As he got home, his fellow members mobilized themselves the following day for a mission of revenge, the source said, adding that the perpetrator of the crime escaped death by the wiskers but others were not lucky.
The first casualty was a young man between 25 to 30 years old. He was gunned down along Udoumo Street in Eket and his corpse was left on the spot for two days.
Another victim, reportedly a member of LOTUS was hacked to death in his residence along Eket Oron Road, very close to Mobil Filling Station. The victim, according to source is a footballer whose traveling documents abroad had been secured for a professional football career.
Three other victims were said to have been gunned down at a “joint” somewhere in town.
Police source confirmed the incident while it is rumoured that a “peace deal” has been secured by the “Kapol” Lords of the two rival groups with other cult groups in attendance.
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