Science and Technology students for allegedly torturing and forcing
some female students into lesbian acts.
The students, most of who confessed to being cultists, told
journalists that they took video shots of the lésbian act because they
had been offered money by some influential Nigerians.
The idea, the suspects said, was to take tapes of the scenes to their
partners in Europe.
Shortly before parading the suspects on Saturday, the General Officer
Commanding 82 Division, Maj. Gen. Sarkin Yaki Bello, who spoke through
the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa,
said the cultists, were arrested in their hideouts at Agbani on the
outskirts of Enugu between July 8 and 12, 2011.
Bello said the patrol team of 103 Battalion moved to the ESUT
following persistent gunshots at the institution on July 4 and
arrested one of the masterminds of the crime, Mr Franklin Anikwe, with
five rounds of ammunition.
The GOC said he had directed that a thorough investigation be carried
out in order to fish out the pepetrators.
He said, "It was the preliminary investigation conducted by the
division's intelligence group that led to the arrest of the 19 other
suspects. Some of the items recoverd from them are four locally made
pistols, 10AA cartridges and video clips where the female students
were forced to have illicit stuff with themselves during the raid."
Also recovered were 10 mobile telephone handsets, including the one
used for recording the dirty scenes.