Details emerge as northern governor proposes harsh penalties for cult related offences

• Kwara govt proposes 15-year jailhouse word and N200,000 good for cultism offenders successful caller amendment measure aimed astatine curbing concealed cults and societies
• Existing concealed cults and concealed societies' prohibition instrumentality to beryllium amended with stiffer penalties to tackle cultism
• Shittu Risqat, clerk of the House of Assembly, announced the nationalist proceeding connected the concealed cults and Secret Societies Amendment Bill 2025 to present harsher punishments for offenders

Ilorin, Kwara state - The Kwara State Government has projected stiffer penalties for individuals progressive successful concealed cults and societies arsenic portion of a caller amendment to an existing law.

In a connection signed by the location clerk, Shittu Risqat, it revealed that the measure is slated for a nationalist proceeding astatine the State House Assembly today, and it whitethorn beryllium cited arsenic the Secret Cults and Secret Societies (Prohibition) (Amendment) Bill, 2025.

The Kwara State Government has projected stiffer penalties for individuals progressive successful concealed cults and societies arsenic portion of a caller amendment to an existing law. Photo credit: Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq
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Legit.ng gathered that the bill, which seeks to amend the Secret Cults and Secret Societies (Prohibition) Law No. 4 of 2016, was precocious introduced earlier the Kwara State House of Assembly.

According to the projected legislation, the minimum jailhouse word for offenders volition beryllium accrued from 14 to 15 years, portion the good for violators volition emergence from N50,000 to N200,000.

The caller measure is titled "A Law to Amend the Secret Cults and Secret Societies (Prohibition) Law No. 4 of 2016; to Impose Stiffer Penalty to Offenders and for Other Related Matters."

The Kwara State Government has projected stiffer penalties for individuals progressive successful concealed cults and societies arsenic portion of a caller amendment to an existing law. Photo credit: Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq
Source: Twitter

A connection connected the projected instrumentality reads:

“The Secret Cults and Secret Societies (Prohibition) Law No. 4 of 2016 is amended arsenic acceptable retired successful this Bill.”

The amendment introduces caller offences, including destroying oregon interfering with grounds related to cult activities, and threatening oregon coercing individuals to articulation cult groups.

It besides empowers information operatives to enactment with oregon without a warrant erstwhile conducting searches oregon arrests related to cultism.

Key highlights of the amendment present see punishment for anyone who "destroys oregon interferes with grounds related to Secret Cults oregon Secret Societies activities" oregon who "directly oregon indirectly forces oregon threatens immoderate idiosyncratic to articulation a concealed cult."

Existing instrumentality prohibits students from concealed society

The archetypal 2016 instrumentality already prohibits forming, joining, oregon financing immoderate cult group. It besides mandates institutions successful the authorities to expel students recovered to beryllium members of concealed cults and bans the readmission of antecedently convicted oregon expelled individuals.

Section 2 of the Act reads:

(1) No idiosyncratic shall found oregon signifier a concealed cult oregon concealed society. Prohibition of concealed cutts and concealed societiens(2) No idiosyncratic shall -(a) subordinate with a concealed cult oregon concealed society; or(b) articulation a concealed cult oregon concealed nine arsenic a member; or(c) springiness fiscal oregon worldly enactment to a concealed cult oregon concealed society; oregon (d) enactment successful immoderate enactment of a concealed cult oregon concealed society.

Stiffer punishment for offenders

One of the large projected amendments to the instrumentality is the punishment section. If the measure is passed, the conception volition read:

Any idiosyncratic who contravenes the provisions of conception 2 oregon 8 commits an offence and is liable connected condemnation to imprisonment for a word of not little than 10 years but not exceeding 15 years and besides to a good of N200,000.

Jurisdiction implicit cult related offences

The caller projected authorities is besides intended to clasp the exclusive jurisdiction granted to the State High Court to effort immoderate suspected offender for cult related offences successful the state.

The jurisdiction arsenic contained successful conception 13 reads:

A idiosyncratic who commits an offence nether this Law shall beryllium tried by the High Court of the State.

Legit.ng antecedently reported that astatine slightest 19 people were feared killed successful a renewed cult clash successful Obelle assemblage successful Emohua section authorities country (LGA) of Rivers state connected Sunday, February 9 2025.

This was confirmed successful a study by The Punch connected Monday, February 10 2025. The improvement has sparked panic successful the area, causing residents to flee.

While the assemblage was inactive reeling successful the symptom of the incident, connected Sunday morning, February 9, Icelanders and Deybam cult groups successful the country resumed their supremacy battle.

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Source: Legit.ng