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April 18, 2024
**Police Vow To Bring Justice, Launched Investigations
A Middle-aged Man identified as Lucky Uche Godwin, alongside his injured wife, Mrs Patience Unoma Godwin Uche and their three children, Treasure Godwin Uche 14yrs, Happy Godwin Uche 11yrs and Precious Godwin Uche 10yrs respectively, have abruptly escaped to avoid being killed unjustly as rampaging masked cultists suspected to be members of the deadly Aiye Confraternity Cult group, allegedly killed Chuks Godwin, a cousin to Lucky Uche Godwin, a student of the University of Benin, at his Benin City residence on the 12th of October 2023 in a questionable circumstances, just as the same cultists have also attacked and injured his friend, Mr Osas, in Abuja and another, Pastor Benjamin in Lagos over their (Lucky Uche Godwin and family) sudden escape.
Recalled that the perennial cult-related crises which have claimed more lives, have remained unabated by the governments and the security agents especially the police across the country, with particular emphasis on institutions of higher learning, a development which has generated alot of concerns in the society as these cultists find their ways into it during their school days.
Speaking with Crime Reporters to confirm the incidents during investigations, a close family source who spoke on the condition of anonymity but refused to give his identity for fear of attack, said that he had been privy to the ugly trend which befell the innocent family, saying the incident happened on the fateful day at about 10pm, when Lucky Uche Godwin, his wife, Mrs Patience Unoma Godwin Uche, whom he legally married to since on the 7th if March 2020 and his late cousin, Chuks Godwin, were both watching movie on the television after the children had felt asleep, as four masked armed suspected cultists invaded his residence and ordered the children who were already sleeping to be woken up and made every one of them to lie down to face ground except Chuks, who was asked to stand to face wall.
The source further said that one of the cultists was insisting that the stubborn intents of the said Chuks Godwin, was sending him to early grave because they had initially made several attempts to initiate him but he refused, pointing out that fortunately for the innocent family, the voice of one of the killer cultists called Kelvin who happens to be friend of late Chuks Godwin and usually comes to the house, was heard and identified.
The source on more serious note said that Lucky Uche Godwin, because of fear of being killed pretended not to know anybody and before he knew what was going on, the cultists shot his cousin, Chuks Godwin on his chest
He added that Lucky Uche Godwin was able to raise alarm which drew attention of his neighbors to help in rescuing his dying cousin after the killer cultists had left the scene and Chuks Godwin was adequately rushed to a private hospital where he was confirmed dead.
The source explained that Lucky Uche Godwin quickly reported the case at Textile Mill Police Station and told the police that voice of one of the cultists, who was a friend to his late cousin, Chuks Godwin, was identified and it was on that premise the police swooped on them and arrested Kelvin and his members of the gang and upon raid to his house, the police recovered arms and ammunition, and other dangerous weapons including hard drugs and they confessed to the crime
The source said that the cultists were arrested and charged to a criminal court and they were remanded in prison custody, as the police are Area Command where they were later transferred to due to the gravity of the criminal offence committed, were still carrying out investigations.
To further worsening a situation that was already bad, according to the source, on the 20th of December 2023, at about 10.30pm, while the innocent family was still basking in euphoria of attack which led to the killing of Chuks Godwin, five unknown gunmen again invaded his residence and callously woke them up after they were already asleep including their three children, they ordered them to lie down to face ground and in the process, one of the attackers use gun to hit his wife on her face and injured her including leg.
The source also stated that the leader angrily said that one of the police officers told them in confidence that Lucky Uche Godwin, gave the identity of Kelvin and his members to the police which now made them to be arrested and remanded in prison custody, saying the leader retorted that they were members of the deadly Aiye Confraternity Cult group and that they don't forgive whoever dares them directly or indirectly and that they were out to kill Lucky Uche Godwin and his entire family as they started shooting sporadically
The source also noted that it took timely confrontation of two other rival cult groups that were at war to scare those attackers away.
The source insisted that Lucky Uche Godwin later drove his wife who was bleeding on her face and leg and children to the same private hospital after which he again went to Textile Mill Road Police Station to lodge the report and it was at that point the police advised him to run away from Benin City to save their lives, stressing they had to escape to Abuja on the 1st of February, where one of his friends called Osas, harboured them in his house .
The source said that fortunately for the said Lucky Uche Godwin and his wife and children, on the 15th of March, they had already gone for night vigil at the Redeemed Church in Abuja, when some armed men invaded their house and demanded their whereabout from Osas and disappointed by their absence, the armed men who were later known to be Aiye Confraternity Cult members angrily attacked and injured Osas and that it took intervention of the people in the neighborhood to rescue and rushed him to Garki General hospital where he was resuscitated after falling into coma.
He noted that Osas was able to explain what transpired after he had recovered and started to narrate his ordeal saying the cultists use machetes and other dangerous weapons to injure him thinking he was dead before they left him in his pool of his blood.
The source also said based on the ceaseless intimidation and attacking, Osas advised Lucky Uche Godwin and his family to escape from Abuja since their lives no longer safe and they went to Lagos where one Pastor Benjamin, a friend to a Benin City based Pastor Michael assisted the innocent family to secure accommodation after the pleading from Pastor Michael and while the family was on their way to Lagos, Lucky Uche Godwin found out from the police at Textile Mill Road Police Station the extent of their investigations and possibly if any arrest had been made, but the police said that they were on top of the matter and that no suspect had been arrested at that moment but investigations were on going to unravel the circumstances leading to their ceaseless threats and attacks.
The source further added that while they were in Lagos, one day, after the family had further escaped, Pastor Benjamin noted that on the 16th of April, the Aiye Confraternity Cult members who spread their membership across every nook and cranny, was at home when they invaded his residence and demanded him to produce the family to kill but he replied them that the family had escaped but the angry cultists who felt embarrassed attacked him and injured him but was lucky not to be killed.
Pastor Benjamin while regretting the attitude of the cultists on innocent people however appealed to the relevant authorities, especially the governments and the security agencies across the country to put up a formidable architecture to address the trend, saying it is giving the country bad image before international community.
In the same vein, the police have assured of giving justice to forestall further occurrence, especially when it became imperative that the recurrent decimal of cult- related killings have become a serious threat to the peaceful living of the people.
The source said that as at the time of filing this report, the whereabout of Lucky Uche Godwin, his wife, Mrs Patience Unoma Godwin Uche and their three children have escaped for safety and that the cultists have vowed to kill them whenever and wherever they are seen.
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