We need to end cultism in Osun- Osun Assembly

Hon Timothy Owoeye, the Speaker, Osun House of Assembly, on Tuesday, during plenary charged the state lawmakers to collectively find urgent solutions to the outbreak of killings linked to cultism in the State

Owoeye gave the charge at the plenary, after the Minority Leader, Hon Kofoworola Adewunmi, under matters of urgent public importance, raised the issue of unrest and killings in his constituency by suspected hoodlums and cultists.

The speaker said the matter raised was a security matter, and therefore, directed the lawmakers to meet him in the office immediately after the plenary to discuss and work out solution to the issues.

According to him, in truth, the solution to end secret cult is between the police and politicians.

He, however, said that a solution to end the activities of cultists in the state would be worked out quickly.

Earlier, Hon Adewunmi said that the people of Ede North (his Constituency) were now living in fear.

According to him, some people had already fled their homes, as the killings had become a daily occurrence with people being killed with their heads cut off and taken away by their killers.

He said the situation was already getting out of hands, urging the state assembly to summon the state Commissioner of Police, so as to find ways of arresting and stopping the cultists’ activities.

In his contributions, Hon Wale Adedoyin, the lawmaker representing Ilesa-West Constituency, said that the killings by suspected cultists in Ilesa is horrible.

Hon Adedoyin disclose that more than 8 people were recently killed and several others wounded by cultists in Ilesa.

According to him, he monitored the evacuation of two bodies from a gutter by the police.