Ogun Stakeholders Raise Concern Over Increased Cases Of Ritual Killings

Stakeholders in Ogun state on Tuesday in Abeokuta raised concerns over increased instances of ritual killings being reported in the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that about three sets of alleged ritual killers, including a couple, have since been arrested by the state police command in less than one month.

At a day sensitisation/reorientation workshop on security and peace building for Ogun state students, the stakeholders expressed worry over the development, warning that the government must urgently do the needful.

NAN reports that the event was organised by the Special Assistant to Gov. Dapo Abiodun on Students’ Affairs, Azeez Adeyemi.

It was attended by pupils of secondary schools as well as students drawn from various tertiary institutions in the state.

In his keynote address, the state Chairman of the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Dr Samson Popoola, warned the students against get-rich-quick syndrome.

“The rising waves of ritual killings and the get rich quick syndrome that has held our youths and young adults hostage is the erroneous believe that rich and wealth are the same.

“Unfortunately it is not so that is why we have so many rich people around us but very few wealthy people,” he said.

Also in his lecture, the Provost, Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu , Dr Lukman Kiadese, suggested that such workshop must be sustained to foster continuous conversation about the subject matter.

“All stakeholders must ensure that this conversation is taken to different functional spaces like schools, students’ groups, community arenas, village squares and voluntary societies.

Earlier , Adeyemi assured that the state government would continue to reorientate students and engage them in more productive activities that would take their minds off criminality.

He disclosed that efforts was being put in place to take the campaign against money rituals to all tertiary institutions in the state.

NAN