Oyogist has learned that the House of Representatives on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to declare a national emergency on ritual killings across the country.
Toby Okechukwu, the Deputy Minority Leader, made this disclosure at the plenary on Wednesday in Abuja.
Presenting the motion, Okechukwu Disclosed that the era of ritual killings is currently going on at an alarming rate in Nigeria while decrying the upsurge of reported ritual killings with increasing cases of abductions and missing persons in different parts of the country.
He added that in most cases, the culprits also rape, maim, kill and cut out sensitive body parts of unsuspecting victims for rituals.
He said the Red Cross Society in 2017 said it received 10,480 reports of missing persons in Nigeria.
“On January 22, three teenage suspects and a 21-year-old reportedly killed one Sofiat Kehinde, severed her head and burnt it in a local pot in Abeokuta, Ogun.
”The police command in Ogun on Feb. 7, reported that one of the suspects confessed that he learned the act of ritual killing from a video he watched on Facebook,” he stated.
