By Asuquo Cletus Felix

Nigeria, a continental giant, one of the most populated black nations in the world. A country full of human and natural resources. A State blessed with vibrant and energetic youths is turning into an abyss of ritual killings.

Ritual killings in Nigeria have become a glorified norm. Nigeria has become a safe aboard for ritual killers. What used to be an abomination in Nigeria, has become a way of life.

It has proven that life in Nigeria is short, brutish and painful, as the nation is plaguing into notoriety as a country of killers.

The latest is the gruesome murder of 22-year-old Oluwabamise Ayankole who was abducted after boarding a Lagos state government-owned bus – Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) and was later murdered and had parts of her body removed which confirmed the suspicion that she may have been killed for ritual purposes.

According to report, Bamise, who was on her way home from work, was thereafter killed inside a BRT (bus) at Ebute Ero.

Also in Calabar South, part of the Cross River State capital, a man identified as Christian Eyo, was arrested for beheading his aunt. He, according to reports allegedly kept the severed head in his room. Though he claimed that he killed his aunt because she seduced him, investigation revealed that his action was linked to ritual killing.

Early this year, it was also reported that a youth, Musa Hamza, 22, was arrested in Bauchi for allegedly beheading a teenager and dismembering , and burying the body parts in a shallow grave reportedly for ritual.



Recall that on New Year’s Day, the corpse of a missing 300-level undergraduate of the University of Jos, Jennifer Anthony, was found mutilated at a hotel, including her eyes missing. The alleged ritual killer, Moses Oko, 20, was nabbed a few days later in Makurdi, Benue State, and it turned out to be her boyfriend.

The list is inexhaustible. The rate at which these crimes is growing in Nigeria is unpalatable, disgusting and shameful, as it has completely taken over our national affairs.

The underlying factor responsible for the carnibalistic tendency, is desperation on the part of our young ones who are eager to get rich quick.

Family neglence, moral bankruptcy, core cultural values have not been re-enforced in many Nigerian households and families.

Religious centers, clergy who often speak and reemphasized on the need to get rich quick are amongst some of the reasons for money rituals. For instance, many Nigerian churches, tell their members to make quick money and sometimes tag it as miracle money.

Now is not the time to issue, sit on the fence and lament. It requires serious drastic measures from across all sectors and walks of life.

For us as a nation to get rid of ritual killings, we must restructure our values. Religious leaders should stop teaching messages of prosperity, but instead reimbibe messages of strong christian faith, teaching messages of love as well as encourage peaceful coexistence, and hardwork.

Family should reorientate their members on the need to get rich legitimately, as well as discouraging the tendency to get rich quick.

As the scriptures put it “those who are eager to become rich will not remain innocent”.

The government on their part, should arrest, and prosecute individuals who amass so much unexplainable money. They can do this by freezing such bank accounts, confiscating illegal properties, as well as deal decisively with those culpable of money rituals.

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See bah ssars or EFCC no do anything about am oh neither the president, but if na to kill g boys wey dey hustle their thing they no go waste time oh... ODE people common sense is not common.