A bill seeking to prohibit the activities of secret cults scaled third reading at the Ekiti State House of Assembly on Tuesday.

The substance of the bill is the prescription of the death penalty for those found guilty of breaching the law in that regard.

Persons found guilty of aiding and abetting cultism would also bag life imprisonment.

All that is left is for it to be signed into law by the governor.

The new provision was an amendment to the law against cultism, enacted by Ayo Fayose during his first tenure as governor of the state.

The law had provided a seven-year imprisonment for anyone convicted of cult activities, whereas those aiding and abetting the act were to be imprisoned for five years.

The bill titled, ‘Secret Cult (Abolition and Prohibition) [Amendment] Bill, 2017,’ gained the lawmakers' attention following increase in cult activities at the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti which led to the killing of students recently.

Before the passage, the House Leader, Akinyele Olatunji, recalled the killings at the university due to cult activities.

“We will not allow any group to turn Ekiti into death trap area,” he said, while thanking the governor, Ayodele Fayose, for introducing the bill.

“We cannot fold our arms while some people would constitute themselves as a menace and eliminate the lives of innocent people of this state,” speaker of the house, Kola Oluwawole, said, while making his remarks on the bill.

“It is an everlasting sorrow for someone to lose his child or relative. The bill will reshape the lives of our youth. It will ‘touch’ those who intend to join any secret cults and those who have the intention to take another person’s life.

“Those people that we are representing will have peace of mind that their lives and those of their children are safe. The bill considers very seriously the negative consequences of such action because of the irreparable loss of lives.”

Source: http://news.bounce.ng/Content/ekiti-assembly-approves-death-penalty-for-cultists-20171108

If this scale through , it would be the greatest news yet.




Death to all cultists, NEXT STOP OUR PRECIOUS CORRUPT POLITICIANS






I dedicate this FTC to all law abiding citizens who has been one way or the other
^ disturbed
^harassed
^robbed
^rapped
^molested
^killed
By those miscreants only cultists will not like this



Cc: Lalasticlala

won ti gba PENALTY lo throw in...

Nice building

If what we read on the news is true, then Edo and Rivers State need this kind of law too...

Nice. They should also extend it to kidnappers and ritualists.

Gbam!

Ngwa come and implement.

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"Death penalty" in 2017? Are they going front or back?

Death to all Biafrans and enemies of Nigeria

finally all this boys that won't read but come to ESC building to beg for marks in the morning but will sag their trousers n take ugly looking tins to portofino in the evening....will be smiling at death penalty


egbon mi oshoko

Fayose.......

good, them go fear to carryout their activities by the time they see 3 or 4 of their men down....



but what will be the penalty for our so called corrupt politicians?

This happens where the law makers themselves are not cultists. It will bring sanity to nigeria in general. This governor is the best in sub Saharan Africa. OKOWA of delta state will be the last in this earth to think of this because he is the king of all cultists. God is watching them.

The real death penalty should be for corrupt politicians.

do cultist wear uniforms ? how can they be certain they apprehended the real one and not a innocent passerby?

but its a good one tho if the law won't be breached by corrupt policing and rich men's ideology

Who are the "father Abraham's" of the cultists? Is it not the makers of the law? Who patronises the cultists, especially during election seasons? Is it not the politicians? This is like Ekiti state political elites making a law against themselves. It won't fly.

If Fowlyose is not the first victim then it's no law

This is pure nonsense..the politicians are the one's sponsporing them..nonsense

Hope Fayose the Eiye man would be prosecuted?

eleojo23:
If what we read on the news is true, then Edo and Rivers State need this kind of law too...

i think benue need it most

Needed all along. Nice one from the mad governor.

eleojo23:
If what we read on the news is true, then Edo and Rivers State need this kind of law too...

add calabar..Then we can rest..

it seem many of these so called law makers are in their second term and feel they av no more need for thugs for election purposes

I'm not being pessimistic just victim of the system

because the irony is thay the same politicians employed these cultist or thugs to help cause trouble and snatch ballot boxes during election time do they have the nerve to enact the law? maybe yes,if their family member was a victim

soberdrunk:
"Death penalty" in 2017? Are they going front or back?

ONE OF THEM JUST INDICATED

Stone age ideas in Ekiti state, I thought it's the fountain of knowledge.

very good move,Nigeria as a whole n3ed this Bill,cultist in nairaland right now be like,fayose dey craze

It should be a nationwide sentence also to rapist,corrupt office holders and kidnappers.thank you

very good move,Nigeria as a whole n3ed this Bill,cultist in nairaland right now be like,fayose dey tenure don expire,e nor go work

very good move,Nigeria as a whole need this Bill,cultist in nairaland right now be like,fayose dey tenure don expire,e nor go work