When the value system is eroded and money becomes the god worshiped in society, automatically, people will do everything fetish including human sacrifice to get rich quick. The contemporary Nigerian society is one that has lost its value system. There is now an obsessive lust for money such that, people resort to money rituals as a quick way to get rich. An average youth on the street does not want to work hard or follow the process of growth as well as the law of sowing and reaping but to turn billionaire overnight.

Which is why recently, some youth have resorted to stealing female underwear to do money rituals. This is an appalling development but before one condemns those perpetrating this satanic act, it is important to look at the root of the matter.

Where it all started

Somehow, there is an indirect relationship between corruption and money rituals. Nigeria is a country where people steal public money and call it free money. Since the thieves did not work for it, they spend it anyhow such that, their neighbours or those who look up to them are moved to envy. And in the process of trying to emulate them, by all means, the youth take desperate steps including doing money rituals. Added, the manner with which public servants who stole money are venerated in society makes more youth desperate to emulate them.

Furthermore, youth unemployment is on the high side in Nigeria. And these youth are put under pressure by parents, relatives and sometimes motivational speakers or performance coaches to give what they do not have. As a result, some of them do money rituals in order to meet up with the pressure.

The entertainment industry has also contributed to the increasing problems of money rituals in Nigeria. Some of the movie and song contents produced, glorify money and encourage the youth to get rich quick. For instance, songs like Yahooze by Olu Maintain, Watin we gain by Victor A.D. Kana by Olumide and Wizkid and Penalty by Small Doctor fall into this category.

What is the way out of this mess?

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Southern Nigeria you mean

when you have so many people living in dire poverty.... WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?!

when you have "lazy good for nothing" people that want to attain riches and status that they dont deserve...WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?!

when you have a country where MONEY is the only god worshipped, above any other... WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?!

when you have a country where people believe wholeheartedly about superstition, juju and all other mambo jambo Harry Potter nonsense... WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?!

there is NO WAY OUT of this mess because the majority out there are willing to die, kill and/or do evil for their own selfish ambitions.