The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-olu has signed into law, the bill for the Prohibition of Unlawful Societies and Cultism of 2021.

The governor, Monday, at the Lagos House, Ikeja, approved a 21-year jail term for convicted cultists in the state.

In February, the State House of Assembly, passed the anti-cultism bill, which stipulated a 15-year jail term for anyone found guilty of abetting cultists and residents who willfully allowed their property to be used as meeting points by cultists.

He noted that the state has suffered the negative effects of unlawful societies and cultists,hence the new law which aims to make parents show more interests in the upbringing of their children and wards to ensure they did not become burdens to the society.

This law repeals the Cultism (Prohibition) Law of 2007 (now Cap. C18, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015) and provided for more stringent punitive measures.

The new law is all-encompassing and applicable to the general public, as against the restriction of the previous law to students of tertiary institutions.