The sitting Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the anti-cultism bill into law. The bill seeks to fight cultism within the state and as a penal measure will see cultists serve a 21-year jail term while accomplices up to 15 years.
The state governor disclosed that the new bill repeals the existing Cultism Prohibition Law of 2017. The governor took to his Twitter account to disseminate the news:
I signed the bill for the Prohibition of Unlawful Societies and Cultism of 2021 into law today. The law sets a 21-year jail term for convicted cultists in the State. The anti-cultism law also stipulates a 15-year jail term for anyone found guilty of abetting cultists.
“This law repeals the Cultism (Prohibition) Law of 2007 (now Cap. C18, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015) and provides for more stringent punitive measures, and is applicable to the public, as against the restriction of the previous law to students of tertiary institutions,
In addition, the Lagos State Audit Service Commission Law, Lagos State Public Procurement Agency bill that will see to the accountability of government funds and the Coronavirus Pandemic Emergency Laws of 2021.