Rituals: Security Chief Wants Law To Prosecute Parents Of Culprits

By Ayodele Oni

Commander of the South West Regional Security Outfit, popularly known as Amotekun, in Ondo state, Adetunji Adeleye, has advocated for a law to make parents that receive exotic gifts from their children while still in school culpable of crime.

Adeleye, who is the South West chairman of the regional security outfit stated that the country’s legal system should be reviewed to allow for the prosecution of such erring parents.

The Chairman told journalists in Akure on Monday that internet fraudsters popularly known as “Yahoo-boys” are new emerging insecurity menace in the Southwest.

Adeleye, who is also Special Adviser on Security matters to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu observed that “The menace of ‘Yahoo boys’ and ritual killings is what is taking the turn of the day.”

He condemned the upsurge in ritual killings and the involvement of young people in  fraudulent activities in the State and South-west at large, adding that some of the internet fraudsters are involved in human rituals for money purposes, termed: “Yahoo plus.”

“A couple of weeks ago, I invited a prominent Hotelier because our investigation reveals that  students take over rooms in these major hotels for a whole year.

“They don’t even allow the hotel staff to clean their rooms, so, they don’t know what is even happening in the rooms.

“A lot of those ladies are butchered and cleaned up inside these hotel rooms for ritual purposes.

“We told them the implications and made them know that they would be made to face the music, if they notice any of these unwholesome attitudes of these youths and they don’t report.

“How do you explain a 21 years old boy paying two million Naira hotel bills that he has not used, taking five to 10 rooms in a hotel and nobody sleeps in the hotel rooms for most part of the week.

“We should know that they are up to something; this is the area that we feel the hoteliers should assist to nip the crime in the bud. There are a lot of things coming up.

“I want to say that majority of the parents of these boys know what their children do; coming home with Lexus cars, students in 200 level buying houses and cars for their parents, and they know that they don’t have any legitimate job.

“They are accomplices as far as I am concerned. I am looking forward to a situation that the legal system will have a grip on such parents that encourage such. The decadence is a big failure from the family setting.

“There is no way your ward will be misbehaving to such extent that you will not know, otherwise you have failed as a parent.”