The Community Comprehensive Secondary School, Aka Offot in the Uyo local government area of Akwa Ibom state has been shut down, the Punch reports.
The school was closed after a suspected cultist, Samuel Archibong, stabbed an SSS2 student, James Elijah, to death on Thursday, March 10.
It was gathered that the suspected cultist was a former student of the school who was expelled from the institution over cases related to cultism but he resurfaced on the said day to kill, Elijah.
A source who spoke on the matter said that Archibong had brought out a knife and stabbed Elijah after a minor disagreement with him.
The source revealed: “He ran away after stabbing James to death. Those angry students would have killed him if they had met him at home.
“They must have gone to his father’s house to revenge their colleague’s death,” the source from the school said.”
Confirming the incident, the Akwa Ibom state commissioner of education, Idongesit Etiebet, announced the shutting of the school.
