REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF AMORC vs. AWONIYI AND 3 OTHERS: A JUDICIAL REVOLUTION AGAINST SECRET CULTS IN NIGERIA?

The right to freedom of worship, thought, conscience, and religion is guaranteed in the Nigerian Constitution. This right is further r nforced by the guarantee of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association for the protection of the interests of persons belonging to that assembly or association.” The emergence of secret cults in recent times has poised a great challenge to the exercise of the above-stated constitutional rights. The most dangerous challenge, however, has been the debut of diverse secret societies in our villages, towns, cities, educational institutions, professions, offices, and calls. These secret societies have an outlook of a regime of cultrocacy that is associated with rituals, mysticism, and occultism, etc.