The unabated and unrelenting activities of secret cults in the Nigerian educational institutions have deeply stirred incalculable havoc on the lives and psyche of Nigerians.. As at 1999, over 56 secret cults existed in the 133 higher institutions of learning existing in the country at the time. They were fast penetrating the nation’s secondary and even primary schools while members of the armed forces were linked with their atrocious activities.
Cultism and many other social vices are related to economic distress arising from corruption-induced poverty. The government ought to initiate attacks on the conditions that breed cultism. Unfortunately, the political ruling class engages the services of cultists, as political thugs, body guards and hired assassins, making it impossible to mop up the required political will.Therefore, the country may put up with pervading cultism for a long time to come.It is undeniably one of the social vices setting the development of Nigeria backwards. The atrocities of secret cults in the Nigerian educational institutions and even in the wider Nigerian society continue to take tolls on the lives of young and old Nigerians. Many young people, politicians, academics and industrialists have been hacked down in their prime by the cultists. It could be in the execution of a contract to assassinate and waste the life of their enemy.
Acting as mercenaries, the cultists get their target in his residence or office or track him down on the way. In most cases, their escape is never tracked down because they are serving the powers that be. They do not face the wrath of the law because the event is probably linked to a political godfather.As such, the failure of the government security apparatus to arrest and prosecute any suspects in the numerous incidences shows that the government has a hand in the crimes and has made speaking up very risky.
However, it could be a clash between two cult groups, one trying to demonstrate its stronger devilish powers over the other. The cultists strike in one Nigerian educational institution today and a reprisal occurs the next day in another institution, claiming lives in both cases. Sometimes, a chain of reactions is sparked off in many other institutions of higher learning. It is not out of place to say that the widespread corruption in high places and endemic poverty in the society are precursors of cultism in the Nigerian educational institutions. Due to poor agricultural planning, leadership ineffectiveness and mismanagement, millions of Nigerians, many of them children, are starving to death.The cultists, mostly the youth, are merely responding to the societal contradictions in national socio-economic development.
Until today, the successive military and civilian governments have paid lip-service to the eradication of secret cults in Nigerian schools. Rather than thin out, these secret societies appear to grow by leaps and bounds, and to spread fast from the tertiary institutions of learning into the secondary schools. Only iron political will can stamp cultism out of the Nigerian educational institutions and halt the untold tolls it exacts on the lives of the citizenry. But, since the political ruling class benefits from the services of cultists, as political thugs and hired assassins, it appears impossible to mop up the country in the nearest future.
Therefore, the nation might as well get ready to put up with this hydra-headed social vice for a long time to come. The suggested way out of the national menace is for the ruling class to muster the political will to eradicate it by seriously confronting its systemic root causes.

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