The House of Representatives on Wednesday charged the Inspector General of Police to take urgent steps to tackle rising cases of ritual killings in the country.
This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Toby Okechukwu, Deputy Minority Leader, at plenary on Wednesday in Abuja.
Presenting his motion, Okechukwu said that incidents of ritual killings had assumed an alarming rate 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 quoted the Red Cross Society in 2017 as receiving 10,480 reports of missing persons in Nigeria.
“On Jan. 22, three teenage suspects and a 21-year-old reportedly killed one Sofiat Kehinde and severed her head and burnt 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.
Okechukwu said that the death of Sofiat attracted national outrage and condemnation considering the age of the suspected killers.
He said that merchants of such wicked acts often use the social media as tool to advertise their evil acts.
