Henry Mbachu, representing Awka South I successful the Anambra House of Assembly, said that from Easter Sunday till date, 34 persons person been gunned down successful Awka and its environs alone.
He said the concern is worrisome and disclosed that helium plans to clasp a information acme wrong his constituency connected 29 May.
The lawmaker gave this denotation successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria successful Awka connected Monday.
Mr Mbachu, a Labour Party lawmaker, said that successful the abstraction of 1 month, 34 lives had been wasted successful Awka and its environs successful the sanction of cultism.
He said the transgression needs to beryllium discussed astatine a roundtable wherever “we volition each brainstorm to proffer solutions that volition beryllium submitted to the government.
“The acme volition propulsion up suggestions that volition assistance successful ending cult killings.
“It looks similar these cultists person overwhelmed the authorities apparatus charged with instrumentality enforcement and information services,” helium said.
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He appealed to accepted and assemblage leaders, faith-based organisations, and youths successful the constituency to instrumentality ownership of their lives and halt the menace.
“As your typical successful the authorities assembly, I americium pained astir the complaint of killings successful the sanction of cultism and privation to find a imperishable solution.
“We indispensable abstracted cultism from transgression arsenic the beingness of galore information outfits, the operation of gates successful each the villages and concern areas person not been capable to extremity the precocious question of cult killings,” helium said.
Mr Mbachu disclosed that the authorities legislature has passed the anti-cultism bill, which is awaiting Governor Charles Soludo’s assent.
In his absorption to the lawmaker’s remark, the constabulary spokesperson successful Anambra, Tochukwu Ikenga, said that the constabulary person been doing their champion to extremity cultism successful the state.
He said that the constabulary would ever spouse with anybody successful the combat against insecurity successful the state.
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