One Way View Of Cultism In Nigeria
♫ Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011According to Dare Adekanmbi “NO fewer than 15,790 lives have been lost to cultism and youth violence in the nation’s tertiary institutions of learning in the last four years.” This statistic statement is enough snapshot of this ugly trend of cultism clogging the wheels of development in Nigeria. In the midst of social violence, there is little possibility for social development. No matter how we may look at it, the development of cultism is invariably related to the development of the nation. Any intelligible infant in Nigeria knows two things. Cultism is an empirical virus that rears itself in all social divide of the nation. Each cult group, no matter the positive motivation for her formation, consequently metamorphose into sinister manifestations due to doctrinal and eventual conflicts with rival cults.
Anthropologically speaking, cultism is a creation of man’s desire to assert himself, to protect himself from negative environmental and social factors. In this process of cultic integration, there is a possibility that a man may forget his moral self and lose essence of his personal drive for the high ideals of freedom and progress. This also the prime damage of mismanagement of power at the hierarchy of the cult, where the use the code of full obedience to turn human agents into social machines, that serves their own private and selfish interests. Based on this premise, we can say with some certainty that, there is always a higher possibility for the transformation and manifestation of cultic existence as social negativity.
