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General News of Thursday, 30 January 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Amotekun should fight ritual killings, traditional corruption - Oluwo of Iwo

Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi has advised that Operation Amotekun should also be used to tackle cases of ritual killings.

Operation Amotekun was launched this year by Southwest leaders as a security outfit to tackle all forms of violence in the region.

Reacting to the development, the monarch advised that part of the duties of the security outfit should be extended to include fighting traditional corruption.

In a statement issued by his press secretary, Alli Ibraheem, Oluwo said, "Amotekun as an institution should be made to fight traditional corruption most especially ritual killings consuming our children's blood daily. There is blood of innocent people in the street. It is a failure on the part of government, traditional institution and other stakeholders that no severe legislation is enacted to punish ritual killers and their accomplice".

"I'm not condemning Amotekun but better direction of job specification should be streamlined. It is disheartening we misplaced our priority. Tell me a day you don't read in newspaper or hear on radio of innocent boys and girls been killed by ritual killers with part(s) removed? May be we want to traditionally legalize ritual killings or why so silence on the such acts perpetrated by fellow human? Or are we all beneficiaries of ritual killings?".

"I want to charge all the stakeholders to streamline the activities of Amotekun to prioritize checkmating of ritual killings to protect innocent lives and enact death penalty for any culprit caught killing human for rituals. I'm not happy with ritual killers. They are not human. Government should help us by enacting a law against ritual killers. Whether male or female, anyone killed by ritual killer is my children. It must stop. Human are not animals that you slaughter, killed and dismembered. It is an aberration. Such is never part of any culture. We should empower Amotekun to challenge such barbaric act".