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Resurgence of campus cults
More articles on this topic: Campus Cults, NigeriaThe resurgence of secret cult activities in the nation’s tertiary institutions hasagain,brought to the fore trhe authorities’ inability to tame the monster. And it has continued to consume many students, who are the leaders of tomorrow, various cult groups have turned institutions of higher education to slaughter slabs, where innocent people are mindlessly murdered and hell constantly let loose in an otherwise serene environment will be stating the obvious.
In the University of Ibadan, six students were reportedly killed when rival cult members clashed. In primordial act, a student was beheaded by feuding cult members in the Lagos State Polytechnic, Isolo and the severed head was put on a stake and paraded round the campus in triumphant jubilation. How bestial!
The growing notoriety of some tertiary institutions for perpetrating anti-social activities with fatal consequences is being nurtured into full blown monstrosities. Unfortunately, the authorities have failed to deal summarily with the problem of cultism. Treating with kid-gloves the problem is largely accountable for its growth on campuses. Incredibly, many had thought the monster had been tamed. But the public know better that we have only scorched the snake not kill it. What could be responsible for this?
From all available evidence, university dons using cult groups to settle scores with their opponents have not helped matters. Cult members in turn go to their clients, the dons, to ask for academic and other favours. Intra-campus cult groups are being infiltrated by politicians who perceive the members cheap sources for recruiting thugs for their selfish ends. This in part explains how they procure firearms which they use with reckless abandon to unleash violence on the campuses.
The time has come for university authorities to take legal, or even robust proactive and punitive measures against cult members. It is no longer enough to close down universities and polytechnics with long history of cult violence and reopen them, after students have signed undertakings to be of good behaviour. History has shown that cult members return to their nefarious acts even before the ink on the paper on which they make the undertakings dries up.
Murder, destruction of property or even possession of firearms, rape and disturbing public peace are crimes punishable by law. Cult members must be stripped of all protection and immunity granted them by their patrons within and outside the campuses. All suspects, no matter, how highly connected must be made to face the full wrath of the law.
The university and polytechnic authorities must themselves take interest in measures to wipe out cultism. The University of Lagos experiment of using the student union to counter cult activities is recording some measure of success and should be replicated in other institutions.
There is no harm in universities having their own security outfits to combat the menace of cultism. Keeping watch on the activities of cultists would enhance efforts to check the menace. The authorities should devise early warning signals and be able to preempt moes of cultism. Having Parents-Universities Association (PUA) pattern after the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) will go a long way to address the problem of campus cultism.
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