The need to inculcate discipline and the fear of God into children from the home front by parents,synergy among security agencies on information and intelligence gathering,provision of decent and affordable hostel facilities that will afford proper monitoring of students on campus have been identified as some of the recipes required if cultism and other cult related activities would be curtailed in our various institutions of learning and community at large.
The Political Head Ibadan South, Local Council Development Area(LCDA), Oyo State Hon Teslim Ogundeji gave this advice in an address he delivered on the occasion of YEAR 2022 NATIONAL CAMPAIGN PROGRAM ON CULTISM held recently in Ibadan.
At the programme which attracted over 150 students drawn from schools in the LCDA,Community Development Association members,representatives of traditional and religious institutions as well as security agencies,Hon Ogundeji said, broken homes,peer group influence,drugs intake and abuse,god fatherism,hunger and unemployment remain some of the immediate and remote reasons youths especially students engage in the monstrous act to the detriment of their immediate families and society at large.
He said every concerned stakeholder must rise up to save the nation and its future which are the youths.Hon Ogundeji said the very essence of education has been totally eroded as students now parade qualifications they cannot defend.
He called for programmes and policies tailored toward reorientating and reawakening the consciousness of students at all levels,parents,religious leaders and non governmental organizations if the country and state would be rid of the monster.
Earlier,the programme convener,resource person and coordinator,Dr olufemi Michael of the Political Science Department, University of Ibadan had intimated the students and audience of the moral and psychological burden cultism and other cult related activities have brought on the state.
The senior lecturer emphasized that extra measures and strategies must as a matter of duty be deployed to checkmate the spread and effect of cultism.
The Ag Director Adm/General Services, Mrs Titi Amusat chided the students on the need to imbibe good and Godly characters which she said would take them to the summit of their career.
Students who spoke, said they would take the lessons learned to their various schools for dissemination and action.
