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Author: FRANCIS BUFFANI
Posted to the web: 10/12/2010 5:48:38 AM

Of recent one disturbing trend that is fast becoming a source of concern to many Nigerians in the country is the scary incidences of secret cult or secret societies   across almost all the geopolitical zones in the country. Various reports of kidnapping and ritual murders are daily reported in our news media and the sad killings and ritual murders of innocent victims are widely seen and witnessed frequently in some part of the country, where human lives are constantly wasted in the quest for monetary gains and other perishable vanities.

Most disturbing is the brutal killings and wasting of innocent human souls, from young innocent kids to helpless elderly people. According to reports most of these victims are not only killed, but most times have some of their vital organs removed for use in black magic and other diabolic rituals. Famous  is the celebrated Clifford Orji case, the human part dealer and his rich customers, who till today are yet to be brought to book, neither was the accused ever brought to court to answer to his diabolic sins or Nigerians told what happened to him and his influential clients. Also famous was the equally celebrated Okija Shrine and its high profile membership and like the Clifford case, nothing has been heard of the disgraceful secret society and its members, since the media hype that exposed the atrocities, neither has the exposure  reduced or stop the rampant cases of ritualists in the south or  other part of the country. In the northern part of the country cases of innocent souls brutally murdered and their body parts stolen for rituals purposes has also suddenly escalate over the years. From Kaduna, Katsina, Kano,Jigawa, Maiduguri, down to Kwara. Here cases of ritual murder and sacrifices are now part of the norm in the society, with influential members of the society fingered as culprits, but at the end they are set free or their cases swept under the carpet.

 One reported case is that of a young girl who had to flee the country when she refused to be freely initiated into a secret society her late father was alleged to have belonged to while alive. The dad one

Mr. Shittu was allegedly brutally murdered in his house in September 2009 by members of his secret society for refusing to yield to their demands of sacrificing his only daughter to the society.

The poor girl was lucky to have fled the country, leaving behind her age old mother and four of her brothers. And till today nobody is said to know her were about. This is just an isolated case from the many of such cases rampant across the country. of recent is the reported case of a three year old girl Usaina Musa who was reported  to have  been brought to Kano from Bauchi state by an unknown person and abandoned at a house with a note describing her ordeal. She was said to be an orphan whose relatives wanted to eliminate in order to inherit her parents’ wealth. Only God will have known what would have happened to her if she had fallen into the wrong hands.

The menace of secret societies which today has become part of a widely reported syndicate across the country, especially in the present democratic dispensation is quite alarming. Politicians are mostly fingered in the shameful act, this due to their desperation to hold on to power and would go to any lent to retain their illusive positions, including ritual killings and sacrifices of innocent souls.

Also the sudden rise in the numbers of new millionaires and purported billionaires in the country with flashy cars and gigantic mansions across the country has been attributed to membership of these secret societies, where unknown faces or bodies would suddenly come from no where to fluent some of the state of the art cars and mansions around.

Until the government and the relevant bodies saddled with the responsibilities of preventing crimes in our societies stand up to confront these menace, the lives of an average Nigerian definitely would always be in danger and constantly threatened by these faceless secret societies and their powerful members, who has all it takes to entice and corrupt those saddled with these responsibilities of checking their diabolic activities.

All across the world reported cases of secret societies have been known and reported by local and International media, but perhaps not as bad as it is frequently reported and witnessed in Nigeria, especially in this present 21st century, upon all the modern civilization, education and globalization.