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By Modupe Shodeinde
Akwa Ibom State government has closed down a public secondary school, Uyo High, as suspected cultists threatened to kill the principal, Mr Michael Etuk, if he fails to release their members arrested by the police within 24 hours.
Chairman of the state Secondary School Board, Dr. Ekaette Okon, conveyed the decision following a directive by Commissioner for Education Mrs. Idongesit Etiebet.
It was gathered that the school area has witnessed cult clashes, including a clash near a filling station located opposite the school.
A source said about six suspected cultists were arrested and taken to Ikot Akpanabia Police Division after the filling station attack.
It was said that some cultists dropped fetish objects near the office of the principal with two warning note pasted on the principal’s office door.
The note reads “We give you 24- hours to release our boys or we fall you. Remember we know your house, children and wife, Iwok close. Mr Principal we always defend you, but you are fighting us.We wash our hands off your case; we fight for you no more.”
The principal of the school, Michael Etuk, could not reached for comments, but the Commissioner for Education, Etiebet, when contacted, responded with a text message saying, “I’m in a meeting, I have directed the chairman Secondary education board to temporarily close down the school.”
A student, who spoke to some journalists, said she and her colleagues were shocked to see fetish objects near the principal’s office. She added that they were asked to vacate the premises at 12:00pm to avoid crisis.
