THE WOUNDED VULTURE

At Ibiwangi University, cult wars, and gang violence have exacerbated the climate of lawlessness and fear on the campus. But more worrying is that the menace has become so widespread that armed robbers, drug peddlers, and other sundry miscreants are now being recruited into the fold.

Everestus, a final-year student of the Department of Continuing Education and Developmental Studies and the first son of his parents had suffered a lot to graduate from the university due to marginalization and intimidation.

On campus, cultists of various stripes act with impunity, killing, raping, and maiming victims while causing widespread destruction. Yet the authorities seem helpless in dealing with this crime because some of the lecturers are members of these groups.

Having identified the constraints militating against the attainment of a just society, Everestus shows resolve in combating them and joins the Bloody Scavengers, one of the deadliest secret cults on campus. His major aim was to murder all the rival group members, especially the lecturers who were bent on frustrating the poorer students.

This odyssey later took a sudden twist when his only brother was kidnapped by a rival cult gang.