Black Axe confraternity hunts for man for forceful initiation
Cultism and cult related activities is not declining in Benin City, Edo State, South-South Nigeria as one Iyoha Eromosele David recently narrowly escaped death after he was beaten severely by the black Axe confraternity for his refusal to join their group.
According to sources, trouble started for David in 2015 when members of the confraternity approach him in a bar, near NNPC Benin depot, and said that they like his appearance, hence they want him to be their friend.
The source said David didn’t reject their offer because he didn’t understand what they meant at that time, he rather, he thought it was just a normal friends unknown to him that it’s beyond casual friends.
The source said “although he didn’t accept or reject their offer to join them, he was just wittingly playing along with them though with strong determination not to be their member.”
“After awhile, a member of the group popularly known as Monday (A.K.A monastone) approach David again and assured him of protection, but he must join the group.
“They continue to mount pressure on him but when they discovered that David didn’t succumb to their offer, they opted to take action by forcing him to join the group,” The source said.
The source disclosed that at that point, David was confused, afraid and bereft of ideas on what to do because all effort to plead to the group to keep calm did not yield any result.
The source said the group pointedly told him that he would hear from them, though David didn’t understand what they meant.
Few days later, according to the source, the group sent one of their members to humiliate him by pouring a cold beer on David’s head, a development the source say got him provoked and heat the man mercilessly.
The source also recounted that the day eventually turned bloody for David as the remaining members of the group came out from their hidden place and beat him to stupor and injured him severely.
“When they have rendered him incapacitated, they shot gun on the air and ran away,” the source said.
According to the source who doesn’t want his name to be mentioned, the matter was reported to the security operatives by David family members, but the beaten continued until one day when they gave him an ultimatum to comply and join them or they will kill him the next time they visited him.
The source said following the death threat, helpless David ran far away from his house to one of his friends house called Osaigbovo for safety.
Following an information from various friends and relatives that the group were looking for him, David reportedly ran away from his friend house to unknown destination.
As of the time of this report, a source who claimed to be David’s friend said though the matter was reported to the security operatives, but they have not been able to capture any members of the group.