From Top To Bottom

"With the bloodlust and merciless killings going on in the name of cultism, the need arises to look into the rise, background and possible overflow of cult violence in the coming period. Hiding under the guise of caring for their devotees, these campus cults have over the past two decades entrenched their diabolical tentacles across the different institutions of learning, tertiary and while pre-varsity and secondary schools have become a viable breeding ground for these outlawed elements leaving in their trail the blood of their prey. 

As it were, successive political administrations, while masquerading to be bent on halting this hydra-headed monster have been found out to have seen a willing tool in the campus cultists in maiming genuine students' rights activists, eliminating perceived political enemies and sustaining their hold on power.

Cultism has even become an alluring enterprise for many youths who are daily traumatized with the forlorn state of the economy which makes the barely-literate politicians of the ruling class heaping millions into their private pockets while the average Nigerian graduate can hardly find a suitable job of eke living for himself. Cultism to the intellectually-blind youth is therefore an alternative as it is a fast and easy route to riches as they engage in 'goldmine' crimes, ranging from armed robbery, gunrunning to drug pushing, and online frauds even to prostitution all of which has one form of attachment or the other to cultism."

-- Kola Ibrahim and Ayo Ademiluyi, talking about the cultish influence on Kenya but, just as easily, describing the world at large, on any Business Day.