National Assembly Tell Nigerian Government To Declare Emergency On Ritual Killing

The Nigeria House of Representatives has told the federal government to declare a national emergency on ritual killings in the country.

The directive to the federal government followed a resolution of the national assembly during their sitting on Wednesday.

They reached a resolution after that.

A lawmaker named Toby Okechukwu presented a motion on the need to stop the rising trend of ritual killings in Nigeria.

Toby Okechukwu, who is the deputy minority leader in the House, said the problem of ritual killing has taken on a very dangerous dimension.

The motion by Okechuwu came at a time when Nigeria had recorded cases that had to do with killings for rituals.

Okechukwu Toby said that, according to the Red Cross Society, 10,480 people were missing in 2017 in Nigeria.

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He made reference to some victim of suspected ritual killing in Nigeria including the case of Sofiat Kehinde in Ogun state and Iniobong Umoren in Akwa Ibom state which the Lawmaker said is prominent because people caugy their killers.

But the house debate on ritual killings began well before they decided to tell the federal government to declare an emergency for ritual killings in the country.

The House said it is the responsibility of everybody to stop the ritual killing trend.

However, some of the resolutions of the House include;

The National Orientation Agency, parents, religious leaders, heads of schools, and the media should start a campaign to change the negative reports in society.

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali, should take steps to increase surveillance and intelligence gathering to arrest and prosecute the people who are involved in the killings.

Fake pastors, imams, herbalists, and native doctors were tagged as the problem of the trend.

The National Film and Video Censors Board increased their regulation of the Nigerian movie industry.