Please see my December 15 post citing a recent research reporting ritual-related deaths between January and January Most ritual murderers get away with their heinous crimes.
Only a small number of alleged ritualistic killers is brought to justice. Influenced by a friend and acting upon instructions of a native doctor from Kogi State, he attempted to kill his mother for ritualistic purposes, However, by accident, he ended up poisoning a number of his relatives including his grandmother, his sister and her two children.
Read the details below. A young man, identified as Anaegbuachara, has been arrested in Enugu State for allegedly murdering his mother, grandmother, sister, and her son in a failed money ritual.
The doctor, based in Nsukka, instructed the suspect to poison and sacrifice his mother as part of a ritual to acquire wealth. Anaegbuachara was quickly apprehended and paraded by enraged community members. On May 25, I posted the news that the Nigerian federal government had announced a ban on money ritual, ritual killing and other vices in Nollywood movies.
This morning I read a very interesting editorial comment on this decision in a Nigerian newspaper which I like sharing with you. It concludes:. The idea, however, is not just about issuing a ban, but more about the state of enlightenment and development of those involved in the industry. Their production naturally would not just portray their creative predilections, but also their level of consciousness, which makes it important to raise the consciousness of movie producers and practitioners, such that they would key into the idea of using their films to portray the limitations of rituals and not seek to glamorize them.
