Skip to main content

Over 100 youths renounce cultism in Rivers

cultism_warOver 100 youths on Friday renounced membership of cult groups in Eberi, Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers.

Mr Iheanacho Chile, Leader of Iceland cult told newsmen after his group submitted their guns in Eberi, headquarters of the local government, that they were involved in crime because of unemployment.

Chile said that they would not return to their former ways again and thanked the Rivers Government for granting them amnesty.

Mr Richard Amadi, Leader of Dey Well cult, apologised to the people of Omuma on behalf of other groups that they were sorry for all the atrocities they committed against them.

Amadi said that he was delighted over another opportunity in life to draw closer to God and make good use of his life.

He commended Gov. Nyesom Wike for graciously conceiving and implementing the amnesty programme for Rivers youths that had gone astray.

Leader of the Osisikanku cult, Mr Okuchi Onyemachi, said that his group would not abuse the rare opportunity offered them.

Mr Ken Chinda, Chairman, Rivers Amnesty Committee, urged the youths to show true repentance and not to return to crime.

“I am in Eberi with my committed members to grant you amnesty to have a new lease of life, to reform you, so that you will be useful to yourselves and the society.

“Note that amnesty is not a leverage to continue in criminality. It is to give you another opportunity to live a good life and be useful,” he said.

Chinda, who is also Special Adviser on Amnesty to Gov. Wike, emphasised that the law would catch up with any of the youths that would go back to commit crime.

“The security agencies will go after you and deal with you. I assure you that by then, you will not have this opportunity.

“I am also using this opportunity to call on cultists, who are yet to embrace the amnesty to come and do so in the next 48 hours or have themselves to blamed,” he said.

Mr Nwaiwu Chisom, Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the local government, thanked Wike for introducing the amnesty programme.

He said that the state would now have lasting peace.

Arms and ammunition submitted were 13 dane guns, eight locally made pistols, 18 cartridges, among others.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Court grants Fani-Kayode N50m bail

Fani-kayode sandwiched by EFCC officials Justice James Tsoho of the Federal High Court Abuja on Thursday granted a N50m bail to former spokesman of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode. Fani-Kayode was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a five-count charge of money laundering to the tune of N26m. Fani-Kayode is the sole defendant in the fresh charges numbered, FHC/ABJ/CR/140/2016. The EFCC accused the defendant of diverting 26 million Naira allegedly received from the ONSA while Sambo Dasuki was in office. The anti-graft agency also accused him of handling the said N26 million without going through financial institution as required under the Money Laundering Act. The embattled former minister is already facing 17-count charge of money laundering before the Lagos Division of the court, along with a former Finance Minister; Nenadi Usman, Danjuma Yusuf and a firm; Joint Trust Dimension Nigeria Limited. They were charg...
Post a Comment
Read more

Pope not involved in Colombian peace deal- Vatican

Pope Francis Pope Francis has turned down a request to play a role in the peace deal between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group. The Vatican in a statement issued on Wednesday in in Vatican City said that an invitation was sent to his Holiness in early August to appoint a representative to participate in the committee that selected the judges for the talks. The statement said that though Pope Francis supported the peace process, he, however, reiterated that he would not get involved in Colombian peace deal. It said that Pope was praying for the enlightenment of the hearts and minds of those who were called to promote the common good of the Colombian nation. A deal was announced last week, putting an end to five decades of internal conflict between government forces and the FARC rebels. The agreement, which needed to be ratified through a referendum in Oct. 2, would entail setting up a special court to grant amnesties or pu...
Post a Comment
Read more

Man docked for defiling 9-year-old girl

magistrate-court A 33-year-old man, Godwin Otobo, was on Monday docked at a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.For allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl, ‎Otobo, who lives at No. 10, Borrow Pit St., Sangotedo-Ajah area of Lagos, was said to have defiled the underage girl whose parents also reside in the same compound. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Anthonia Osayande, told the court that the accused committed the offence at about 9.00 p.m. sometimes in September. “The accused defiled the girl in the night when she was fetching water.‎ “The offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011,’’ Osayande told the court. The accused pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge of defilement. Ruling on a bail application filed by the accused, Chief Magistrate Ipaye Nwachukwu, granted him bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum. She said one of the sureties must be a property owner in Lagos State, while the other must be a civil servant on grade...
Post a Comment
Read more