BY GBENGA ARIYIBI
ADO-EKITI— The ongoing First Semester Examinations in the University of Ado Ekiti, UNAD,  was Wednesday  disrupted following a bloody clash between two rival cult groups, leaving 10 students injured.

Vanguard gathered that trouble started after a cult member shot a rival cultist outside the campus at about 7. 50 pm, on Tuesday.

According to Vanguard’s investigation, Eiye Confraternity and the Black Axe have been fighting for supremacy in the institution for a long time.

It was gathered that other members in the same cult with the one shot, mobilized to the institution shooting sporadically.

Students who were already seated in the examination halls were said to have abandoned their papers and other materials and scampered for safety.

Two members of the University Peace Corps Cadets, who attempted to intervene, received machete cuts and were said to be receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in the state capital.

But the State Police Command, Public Relations Officer, PRO, Mohhammed Jimoh said three alleged cultists were arrested with guns.

He said they “are assisting the police in its investigations.”

Worried students of the institution called on the university  authorities to postpone the examinations and until normalcy returned, claiming that the injured students and others were not in the right frame of mind to continue with the examinations.

Speaking on behalf of the students, President of the Students’ Union, Mr. Olalekan Shittu, said the authorities “should not make innocent students to suffer unduely. The students are yet to recover from the trauma of the cultists’ clash.”

But the institution’s Registrar, Dr. Omojola Awosusi, said examination would go on as scheduled.