The Bayelsa State police command yesterday
announced the killing of a 200- level student
of petro-chemical engineering of Niger Delta
University, Amasoma, Mr. Tariebi Tyger,
during a forceful initiation exercise by some
unidentified cult group.
According to the police, the 21 years old
undergraduate was wooed by the cultists
but he turned them down. He was later
forcefully taken from his hostel and an initiation exercise done.
The police public relations officer, Mr. Fidelis
Odunna, told Edification sources that though
the police had arrested persons suspected
to have taken part in the murder, it gathered
that the victim passed out during the heavy
beating meted out during the initiation and
died. “They forcefully took the boy from his hostel
to initiate him into a cult and in the process,
the boy passed out. They threw his corpse
into the river. We are going to arrest them
very soon”, he said.
Edification info gathered that the deceased
was the son of a police officer in the state.
The grandfather of the deceased, Mr. Lucky
Daniel, told our correspondent in Yenagoa
that Tyger was abducted from his hostel at
Amasoma in Southern Ijaw local government
area by some suspected cultists.
He said Tyger was bundled to a house in
Otuan where he was murdered by the cultists who later threw his corpse into the river.
“The cult group gruesomely murdered him,
tied his legs with block sinkers and threw it
into the river”, he said.
Tyger's parents suspected a foul play few
days after he left them in Yenagoa on
December 10 to resume his studies in the
university.
All effort made by his parents to reach
the 21 years old undergraduate on his
telephone proved abortive forcing them to
begin a search operation.
His parents became worried and swung
into action to locate him in his hostel
accommodation. To their chagrin and
utmost disappointment, they observed that
the door of his room was broken but he
was nowhere to be found.
In their frantic efforts to locate their
missing son, the parents contacted his
erstwhile room mate who was his closest
associate at the time. He joined the parents
as a sympathizer in the search, he said.
Daniel who identified himself as the
maternal grandfather of the deceased said
the matter was later reported to the police.
