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Sanwo-Olu signs law prescribing 21-year jail term for cultists

Sanwo-Olu signs law prescribing 21-year jail term for cultists The law stipulates 21-year jail term for convicted cultists and 15 years for those found guilty of abetting cultism. ADVERTISEMENT The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday signed the anti-cultism bill, which prescribes a 21-year jail term for convicted cultists, into law. The event held at the Banquet Hall in the State House, Alausa, on Monday. The new law, “Prohibition of Unlawful Societies and Cultism of 2021” seeks to combat cultism in Lagos State by giving stiffer punishments to convicted cultists and those abetting them. The law stipulates 21-year jail term for convicted cultists and 15-year jail time for those found guilty of abetting cultism.

Sanwo-Olu approves 21-yr jail term for cultists, signs Anti-Cultism Bill, 3 others into law

Share Lagos State governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday signed into law the bill for the Prohibition of Unlawful Societies and Cultism of 2021, approving 21-year jail term for convicted cultists in the state. The State’s House of Assembly, in February, passed the bill, which also stipulates a 15-year jail term for anyone found guilty of abetting cultists and residents who willfully allow their properties to be used as meeting points by cultists. Governor Sanwo-Olu assented to the bill and three others at the swearing-in event for newly appointed members of the State’s Public Procurement Agency Governing Board and two permanent secretaries, held at Banquet Hall in the State House, Alausa.

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