The media house is awash with a disturbing pattern of youths being caught with human elements. It’s changing into alarming as, nearly frequently, these younger persons are caught with severed human heads or skulls, presumably for ritual functions.
At first of this 12 months, a 32-year-old man was apprehended for the homicide of his alleged girlfriend, a 24-year-old member of the Nationwide Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, who served at Nicon Insurance coverage within the Nation’s capital, Abuja, earlier than her loss of life.
Not lengthy after, the police in Imo state, South-east Nigeria, arrested three crime suspects for allegedly having a human cranium in Ogii, a group in Okigwe Native Authorities Space of the state.
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In the identical 12 months, the Ogun state Neighborhood, Social Orientation, and Security Corps, in any other case generally known as So-Protected Corps, apprehended 54-year-old Adelani Oriyomi at a burial floor in Kere, Obada-Oko, Abeokuta, Ogun State, whereas allegedly making an attempt to exhume a human cranium.
These are among the reported circumstances this 12 months that we may seize.
Final 12 months, in 2024, operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command arrested a person recognized as Nuhu Ezra with a human cranium and bones within the Lugbe Space of the nation’s capital.
The suspect claimed he discovered the physique elements whereas searching in a bush in Kuje.
Identical 12 months, the Ondo State Police Command arrested a person, Yusuf Adenoyin, for being in possession of eight human skulls in Isua, the headquarters of the Akoko South-East Native Authorities.
Additionally, the Oyo State Police Command introduced the arrest of two people for possessing a contemporary human cranium belonging to an unidentified girl within the Amuloko space of Ibadan, the state capital.
In 2023, 5 males have been jailed for 12 years every after they have been convicted of exhuming a human cranium. They’d deliberate to take it to a standard medication practitioner who mentioned it was wanted for rituals that will make them wealthy. The boys pleaded responsible after being caught with the cranium in a bag.
In 2023, the Niger State Police Command arrested 5 folks in possession of a human cranium.
The suspects confessed to the police that an Alfa despatched them to carry the cranium for cash ritual functions.
Spokesman of the command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, who made this recognized in an announcement mentioned the whereabouts of the Alfa couldn’t be ascertained.
This disgusting and worrisome behaviour amongst younger individuals appears to have turn out to be an trade of its personal.
Certainly, in writing on this unhappy pattern, it will appear as if killing for cash or desecrating graves for human elements has turn out to be so commonplace and low cost.
The mindlessness of those supposed ritual killings is progressively being matched by an more and more numb perspective amongst Nigerians on account of how rampant they’ve turn out to be.
For the reason that Clifford Orji days, which uncovered the barbaric tendencies in society and robbed the nation of its innocence, the apprehension of individuals with human physique elements for no matter purpose has elevated reasonably than decreased.
Past the ethical decay this enhance displays is the priority concerning the gradual tempo of authorized processes, which frequently offers a way of a scarcity of deterrence. Too many weird circumstances that must have been swiftly prosecuted have a tendency to pull on, giving the impression that, maybe, a suspect, regardless of how dangerous his or her case, may simply stroll free when the highlight shifts to a different offender and sufferer.
This has to alter. Individuals must know that when they’re caught, they are going to face swift justice. This won’t solely assist guarantee respect for the regulation or enhance the nation’s picture but additionally stabilise the polity in the long term.
There’s a severe want for orientation change amongst younger folks. From the get-rich-quick-at-any-cost mindset to the notion that crime pays, the Nigerian system wants to start a reorientation programme that will make youths see the necessity for laborious work, persistence, and dedication. Programmes alongside this line could possibly be launched within the curriculum at each degree of the academic system.
Clearly, loads will probably be requested of the faith-based and conventional establishments in addition to the household unit. As custodians of society’s social, ethical and religious well-being, extra effort ought to be made to instill and reaffirm sturdy ethical codes in society.
Nevertheless, this may be efficient when leaders set good ethical examples for the younger. A scenario the place supposedly eminent people – politicians, enterprise executives, conventional rulers, spiritual leaders – rape the system and get away with it sends the improper message to the youths.
The federal government should present the fundamental wants and setting for an excellent dwelling. There must be employment alternatives for the youth, inexpensive qualitative well being care, entry to sound training and housing.
It should additionally make insurance policies that maintain what’s left of the center class. It can not proceed to concentrate to solely the ultra-wealthy. It should realise that insurance policies that strangle the middle-class additionally have an effect on the wellbeing of households contributing to the challenges that put a pressure on the social material that when outlined society as an entire.
