The Nigeria Police has identified eight behaviour as a pointer to fact that a child has joined or likely to join a cult group, noting that understudying such behaviours is key to understanding and guiding children from either joining or continuing as a cultist.
Penpushing reports that this was made known by the Anambra State Police Command in a statement by the Public Relations Officer Tochukwu Ikenga as part of an anti-cult campaign by the police command in the state.
The statement highlighted such as sudden changes in personality. For example, a person known to be an extrovert suddenly becomes introverted or vice-versa, asking questions or engaging in conversations with people and seeking their validation or justification for gangs or groups and suddenly being afraid and fascinated with or bearing weapons.
Penpushing further reports that others are sudden urge to seek justice through self-help and making open or subtle threats about avenging a rift, resort to the use of drugs and alcohol to get intoxicated, pains, and succumbing to peer pressure and suddenly staying away from home for days and staying late at night.
The highlights equally include: when your child is always on a longer call than necessary and surfing the internet in search of ways to cause pain to other people, as well as when your child becomes so interested in a group of friends especially with particular identification like colour, handshakes and hanging out.
Penpushing also reports that the command emphasisied that understudying such behaviours is key to understanding and guiding children from either joining or continuing as a cultist, explaining that the anti-cult campaign by the police in Anambra State apparently follows the recent cult-related attacks and killings in Awka, the state capital.
The spokesperson, a Superintendent of Police, explained that the police authorities in the state decided to embark on the campaign to help young Nigerians realise their potentials, pointing out that no doubt Nigeria is blessed with vibrant, energetic, and enterprising youth
“It is a known fact that Nigeria is blessed with vibrant, energetic, and enterprising people full of potential. The potential can only be fully realised in a peaceful, secure environment. The Anambra Police Command shall sustain the fight against crime in the state through the advocacy platform of Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices,” he said.
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