The police in Enugu state has arrested 10 Junior Secondary School students who are allegedly members if a cult. The police are now investigating allegations that rape is part of the initiation process. Enugu state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Danmallam, while speaking with The Sun said the command got a tipoff that 30 female Junior Secondary School students were to be initiated into different cult groups, Viron Queens or White Angels confraternities.
Police swung into action and visited the school. They arrested some of the girls who were identified as Naomi Peace,15, Ruth Nwoke, 14, Chibuogu Adaeze, 15 and Ujunwa Ede, 14. Others were Chiemerie Olisakure, 15, Akalisi Chisom, 14 and Ogbu Ebere, 14. “Anti-cultism detectives visited Urban Girls Secondary School and Metropolitan Girls Secondary School and arrested 10 of the JSS students on June 20. They are now in custody and had confessed their membership of Viron Queen Confraternity,” CP Danmallam said
The trio Edeh, Peace and Nwoke narrating how girls are initiated said they were introduced to the cult by a friend and at their initiation in 2017, they were raped each by five different boys. “Our Parents didn’t know we are in the Viron Queen Confraternity,” they said. Adaeze, another victim claimed “We didn’t know they put drugs in the drinks they gave us. From there, we were initiated and raped by six boys.” Olisakure yet another victim said “We were threatened not to tell anybody or our parents. The irony is that at the closing hour of the school, three of the same boys who initiated us would come with bike and take us away to have sex with us. After that, they give us N1,500, as transport fare.” Chisom alleged that some of their teachers are aware they are part of the cult and slept with them so they would not inform their parents. “Some of our teachers know that we are members of Viron Queen Confraternity. We don’t respect our male and female teachers. Some of them used the advantage to sleep with us because we don’t want them to tell our parents. We can identify some of the boys who initiated and raped us and threatened us not to tell our parents. We have informed police officers and we hope they will be arrested” she said“We didn’t know that we are in bondage until the anti-cultism policemen arrested us in the school premises,” said Edeh. The Commissioner of Police said the police are still investigating the case and that the next phase of action, is for the detectives to go after those who raped and initiated the girls. Photo Credit: Getty
