The decision was adopted by the House of Representatives at its plenary session on Wednesday.

The development was part of the Lawmakers’ resolutions on a motion of urgent public significance headed ‘Need to Curb the Rising Trend of Ritual Killings in Nigeria.’

There have also been multiple incidences of ritual killings in Nigeria recently.

The most recent of the gruesome ritual killings that sparked outrage in the country was the case of four teenagers accused of murdering a 20-year-old female named Sofiat Kehinde.

An Abeokuta Magistrates Court sitting in Isabo, Ogun State, ordered the teenagers to be remanded in prison for two months.

The suspects, Balogun Mustaqeem, 20; Majekodunmi Soliudeen,18; Abdulgafar Lukman,19; and Waris Oladeinde,18; were arraigned on Thursday on two counts of conspiracy and murder.

The teenagers were apprehended days ago after burning the head of Sofiat in a local pot for ritual.

Inspector Lawrence Balogun, police prosecutor, while speaking in the court noted that the defendants committed the offense around 11 pm on January 28 at the Kugba area in Abeokuta.

He further stated that the suspects conspired among themselves to kill Sofiat, who was Soliudeen’s girlfriend.

The prosecutor added that the defendants murdered the girl by cutting off her head with a cutlass, adding that they had plans to use her for money rituals.

According to Balogun, the offense contravened sections 324 and 316 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State 2006.

He said, “They unlawfully killed Sofiat Kehinde, aged 20, by cutting off her head, thereby committing an offense contrary to and punishable Section 319 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State, 2006.”

The Magistrate, I. O Abudu, who did not take the plea of the defendants, ordered that they be remanded in prison.

Abudu ordered that the defendants be remanded in the Oba Custodial Centre pending legal advice from the Ogun State Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

She, however, adjourned the case till March 14 for mention.