Clergyman and vision bearer of Global Liberation Movement for Peace, Unity and Progress, Messiah Osatohanmwen, yesterday, said plans are underway to organise a statewide crusade for suspected cultists to publicly renounce their membership.
He said the crusade would help check the menace of cult-related killings in Edo State.
Osatohanmwen said: “We want to organise a crusade in February. We are going to have an avenue, be you a wizard, a native doctor, anything; you are to come because there is no more time.
“For the cultists…during elections politicians use them… and give them money… to deliver the assignment given to them. But when they start killing themselves, nobody will talk until it escalates before they intervene.
“Now, the only cult that is going to be recognised is the cult of Jesus. There is going to be a renunciation. We are going to involve the government because these people that are renouncing need to have an affidavit.
“They will be captured so that if there is a gunshot in a particular area, we will look for those who renounced from that area and they will help us to fish out the culprits. There is a central system that will get their data, that will help us to know who is who.”
He said he would seek the state government’s approval for the crusade.
Recall that about 30 young people recently lost their lives in cult-related clashes in parts of Benin City.
