The Federal House of Representative has urged the federal government to declare a national emergency on ritual killings across the country.
This was part of the resolutions reached by the lawmakers on a motion of urgent public importance entitled ‘Need to Curb the Rising Trend of Ritual Killings in Nigeria’.
The Minority Leader of the House, Toby Okechukwu, moved the motion during Wednesday’s plenary at the lower chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.
The motion became necessary following incessant killing of innocent Nigerians for ritual purposes.
Worried about the trend, the lawmakers called on the National Orientation Agency (NOA), as well as parents, heads of schools, religious leaders, and the media to undertake a campaign to change the negative narrative bedevilling the society.
Also, the lawmakers resolved to call on the Executive Director of the National Film and Video Censors Board to rise to the mandate of the agency, as the clearinghouse for all movies produced in the country.
They mandated the House Committee on Information, National Orientation, Ethics, and Values to report back to the House within four weeks.
They urged the Inspector General of Police to take urgent steps to increase surveillance and intelligence gathering, in bid to curtail, apprehend and prosecute all perpetrators of ritual killings in Nigeria.
More so, the House Committee on Police Affairs was mandated to report back to the lawmakers within four weeks.
