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Nigerians decry the menace of cultism in Nigeria
Nigerians on social media decried the menace of cultism in Nigeria, describing it as a nefarious act and a fail way to build confidence.
Nigerians on social media decried the menace of cultism in Nigeria, describing it has a nefarious act and a fail way to build confidence.
No doubt, the origin of cultism in Nigeria has always been traced to the Seadog Confraternity (a.k.a Pyrates), founded by Wole Soyinka and six others at the foremost University of Ibadan in 1952.
It was said that the peaceful, and non-violent confraternity set up then has metamorphosed into a secret cult whose activities have been characterized by some bizarre and violent activities.
An example of how Amotekun and which reports gathered that the cultist had around 11 am invaded Owo-Ope community around Ayetoro on motorcycles and killed a teenage member of a rival group and also the killing in Port Harcourt has been an issue in the minds of Nigerians.
Dr Chinonso Egemba, a popular online doctor in Nigeria lamented the “day cultists took my roommate and me in Awka and flogged us with the flat part of a cutlass till we bled.”
I'd never forget the day cultists took my roommate and I in Awka and flogged us with the flat part of a cutlass till we bled.
Our crime;someone squatting with us had an issue with them and was on the run
There's nothing glamorous about cultism.
— Dr. Chinonso Egemba (@aproko_doctor) September 17, 2021
The major causes of cultism in tertiary institutions were the influence of peer groups, parental background, societal decadence, erosion of education standards, the militarization of the Nigerian polity, lack of recreational facilities, quest for power and protection among others.
There’s nothing you can use to glorify cultism.
The sight of young boys getting chopped to pieces with sharp cutlasses, axes and daggers during cult faction fights in Lagos Island will always haunt me.
— Rinu #EndSARS?? (@SavvyRinu) September 17, 2021
However, some of the effects of cultism include loss of lives and properties, disruption of academic activities on campuses, unsafe university environments. It was therefore recommended that all the stakeholders in the university education system should fuse efforts to combat the menace. It was also recommended that government should be more aggressive in her quest to eradicate cultism in the universities.
Y’all should know that this PR for cultism won’t work.
Cults are responsible for The deaths, the chaos, parents burying their children, the bullying, rapes & robbery that have happened all around Nigerian Schools for many years.
Opening Twitter accounts won’t erase what we saw
— This Girl is Blessed (@Girl_isBlessed) September 17, 2021
A story of how a boy named Roland* a first-year student when he joined the Buccaneers, a secret, illegal student society in Nigeria was a also shard on Twitter.
According to the story, a brutal initiation ritual was held late at night in the forest. Older members, singing, dancing and drinking, formed a ring around him and other blindfolded initiates, beating them severely until the early hours of the morning.
Don’t get me started about cultism in MAPOLY and LASU.
“Market and Angola Tree”.
Students kïlling each other in the name of ‘confratenities’ lured with promises of protection, power and popularity.
— Rinu #EndSARS?? (@SavvyRinu) September 17, 2021
The ritual was supposed to purge the initiates of weaknesses and instil bravery in them.
“The moment you go in there and come out, you are a different person,”
These societies, also referred to as confraternities and campus cults, have names like Vikings, Black Axe, Eiye (a word in the local Yoruba language for bird), and the Buccaneers.
“The concept of cultism is one I’m sure I will never understand”- Man pic.twitter.com/HRuVEu5t1V
— Naija (@Naija_PR) September 18, 2021
Majority believed that the main reason people join cult is that it provides them with networking opportunities to get good jobs and to access power which other normal group ca not easily provide.