A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Chief Kofi Atiemo-Gyan, has condemned the killing of a Nigerian woman, Aminat Usman, for alleged rituals in Ghana.
Media reports on Amina’s death suggested that she was hacked to death by her neighbour, Abdul, who offered to ferry her to a hospital to deliver her baby on July 13, 2015.
Her body was found without the breasts and private part.
Gyan,patron of the Ghanaian community in Nigeria, called for a stop to such killings in Africa.
“How can people be so barbaric and cruel to the extent of killing their fellow human being for money making rituals?” Gyan told The Nation in Lagos.
He asked African leaders to establishing civic centres to educate the people on the need to avoid killing people for money ritual and, instead encourage hard work, education and proper planning of their life.
He added: “our people should be made to understand that whatever wealth they get in life, they have to work hard for it and not by any other magic which they wrongly believed.”
Gyan tasked religious leaders in Africa to be circumspect in their approach to generating money for their religious organizations.
He said: “The new generation of religious leaders are part of the problems the African societies are facing through their false preaching. Unfortunately, the religion leaders we have today don’t ask their members how they suddenly got their wealth, provided they can donate money to the church or mosque and pay their tithes and sakat.
“The religious leaders are creating the impression through their preaching that if one commits murder and comes to a worship centre and pray for forgiveness, his sins would be forgiven. On the contrary, the Bible and the Quran which the religious leaders rely upon admonish us to do unto others what we want for ourselves.”
He urged African leaders to rule properly and use the wealth of their nations to fight poverty, while the law enforcement agencies should step up their vigilance against criminals in the society.