Gunmen on Tuesday shot dead one Apeh Joseph, a 400 level student of English Education at the Kogi State University, Ayingba.

Joseph was said to have recently concluding his final examinations at the school.

The Kogi State Police Command, while confirming the incident, said Joseph was a renowned cultist.

The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP William Aya, in a statement, claimed that the deceased was behind the cult killing that occurred in the university last month.

Aya stated that one Onuche Jibrin of the Security Unit of the Kogi State University filed a complaint at a police station that

“one Joseph Apeh, a 400-level student of English Education Department of the university, was shot inside the campus by two unknown men on a motorcycle”.

He said the victim was rushed to the university’s teaching hospital where he was confirmed dead by medical doctors.

The remains of the deceased had been deposited in the morgue of the health facility for autopsy.