BY Emmanuel  Aziken

South-South Elements Progressive Union, SSEPU, has asked the Federal Government to enforce the ban on public officials being members of secret cults so as to  forestall a repeat of the ambush on Nigerian policemen by the Ombatse secret cult in Nasarawa State.

The group denounced the  recent spate of killings across the country and  charged the citizenry to rally round the Federal Government in its effort to  check  the reign of anarchy in the country.

SSEPU, in a statement  by its National Coordinator, Mr. Joseph Ambakaderimo,  reacting to the recent attacks on security men in Baga and Bama in Borno State, Bayelsa State and the ambush on  policemen by the Ombatse milita in Alakpo forest in Nasarawa State, noted that the unconventional tactics adopted by the groups, and urged the administration to rely more on intelligence gathering as a way of rooting out the insurgennts.

Arguing the case for the enforcement of the ban on membership of secret cults by public officials, SSEPU said: “The ban on civil servants and members of the armed forces and the police, from membership of secret cults should be enforced in order to confront the challenge posed by groups such as the Ombatse milita in Alakpo forest in Nasarawa.

“We also appeal to the misguided elements and their collaborators, who are determined to drag Nigeria into a state of anarchy by discrediting President Goodluck Jonathan and his government to desist forthwith.”