Lets fight Satanism in schools
Mmegi Editor | Friday January 27, 2017 11:16
In recent years, Satanism reports have been too many for us to just dismiss as mere talk or referring to the learners as crazy.
First we would here of strange fowls being found in classrooms to fresh-faced teenagers clad in all-black attire heroically proclaiming being devil celebrants. This has now escalated to reports of teenagers harming others, killing others and Satanism is not recognised as a reason in the courts.
So widespread are these reports that just about every school has a story or two about the chilling practice.
Just yesterday Mmegi carried a story of a teenage boy who is in court for allegedly hitting a boy with a shovel with the intent to suck his blood.
Still in Francistown, a 17-year-old girl cut off a toddler boy’s head with an axe and held it as a trophy. The incident was once again linked to Satanism. Over the years students have confessed to being infected by the Satanism spirit, after having the desire to drink human blood.
It is also reported that some students who are said to be members of the Satanism group go to the extent of putting snakes on their bodies while they are sleeping in the hostels.
In one of the incidents that proved that indeed Satanism exists at schools, a student confessed that she used to be a Satanist and that she once put snakes on some students while they were sleeping.
There is no doubt that this culture is growing among our school going children and an intervention is due.
Turning a blind eye on the situation will bring more harm than good. Children are quitting school and not taking their work seriously as they are out to serve Satan.
This can only lead to one concluding that Satanism plays a role in dwindling academic performance in schools.
We would like to urge the Ministry of Basic Education to act before it is too late.
We urge the ministry to reach out to religious leaders, parents and other stakeholders to come up with a comprehensive solution to the problem.
The head of the Directorate on Intelligence and Security, Isaac Kgosi told the Public Accounts Committee in 2012 that Satanism sects are operating in Botswana and some prominent members of society are involved.
On the basis of this we urge the government to come up with a way to combat this.
Today’s thought
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
- Malcolm X