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Reps declare national emergency on ritual killings

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The House of Representatives has declared a national emergency on ritual killings and urged National Orientation Agency (NOA), stakeholders and the media to initiate a campaign towards changing the situation in the country.

This was as the House also charged the Inspector General of Police (I-G) to take urgent steps towards tacking ritual killings in the country.

The actions followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Rep Toby Okechukwu, the Deputy Minority Leader, at plenary on Wednesday in Abuja.

Presenting the motion, Okechukwu said that incidents of ritual killings had assumed an alarming rate in Nigeria, while decrying the upsurge of reported ritual killings with increasing cases of abductions and missing persons in different parts of the country.

He added that in most cases, the culprits also rape, maim, kill and cut out sensitive body parts of unsuspecting victims for rituals.

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