How We Will Combat Money Rituals Trend In Nigeria – Lai Mohammed| DETAILS
The Federal Government of Nigeria is making plans to launch a national sensitization campaign against the rising trend of money rituals in the country.
This was announced on Monday by the Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in Abuja.
The Federal information boss who paid a visit to a media group regretted that the younger generation have leveraged on the social media to delve deep into money ritual killings, hence the need to scourge the social media of unwholesome contents.
“Gentlemen, our visit today is coming at a time of great concern across the country over the rising cases of ritual murders by unscrupulous people, most of them very young, who are seeking to get rich at all cost. We have therefore decided to use this opportunity to begin the process of raising national awareness on this scourge.
”For those who may still be in doubt, ritual killings have assumed a worrisome dimension in recent years. According to an NGO, Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), 150 women and girls were killed for ritual purposes between January 2018 and December 2021,” he said, while also citing recent ritual killings in other parts of the country.
Lai Mohammed said the National Orientation Agency (NOA) is already partnering with religious and traditional organizations as well as NGOs to forge behavioral change, especially among the youth, some of whom, he said, are afflicted by the get-rich-quick syndrome
He also announced that the National Film and Video Censors Board, the regulatory body for films and videos in Nigeria have been directed to take the issue of ritual killings into consideration while censoring and classifying films and videos, in addition to engaging with stakeholders in the industry to express the concerns of the government and Nigerians on the need for Nollywood producers to eschew money ritual content in their movies.
Mohammed called on the media to lend its voice to the efforts to stamp out the growing menace of ritual killings.
