In contemporary Nigeria, aside from battling with a corrupt and insecure system, one also battles to save lives and property.
Daily, updates of insecurity, inflation, kidnaps and ritual killing and disastrous acts are surely anticipated. One does not even know whom to trust anymore as even masses are scared of masses.
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This current situation is the outcome of economic hardships average citizens face coupled with poverty as the principal subject.
Some people in a bid to acquire wealth indulge in inhumane practices and terrible act like ritual killing.
Sadly, young people especially Nigerian students have fallen victims of it.
Due to the same quest for wealth, fame and reasons best known to them, It has now become a registered fact that young girls and boys suffer and die mysteriously as a result of being used for ritual purposes.
The ongoing recession and inflation, experienced by masses with outstanding reference to this incumbent government, has fueled the increase of hunger, crime rates and insecurity.
Furthermore moral standards in society had been defeated. The family is the first societal institution, sadly most parents with defect from proper parenting skills, raise up children with unknown negligence further birthing nuisances to the society.
It is safe to say that if parents play their actual role and the government did not fail masses, the complaints and killings would have been curbed.
All campus show interviewed parents and students from on the current ritual killings.
A Benson Idahosa University student with his name undisclosed, expressed disgust for the act and laments the rate at which youths are getting ‘dirt's’ on their hands because of the country's hardship.
According to him “no where is secure anymore, you just have to stay alert and safe."
He further urge female students to stop gallivanting for a wrong purpose.
A Nigerian parent blamed young people for uncontrollable greed and calls the disastrous act, an outcome of laziness.
She said Nigerian students should be patient and hard-working especially female students stressing that in a society where females are mostly the victims of such dreaded act, they should be focused and contented.
Another parent blames it on the government, further stating that if the youths were occupied with good paying jobs, they would not opt for destroying humans for a living.
Although poverty can be likened to the string that drags the sheep to slaughter, and ritual killings can not only be associated with young people, if we must curb such or even worse occurrences in the forth coming generation, young people are advised to break free from the rope and the holder through hard work and other genuine efforts.