Is NBM a Criminal Organisation?

Some readers have commented that I am not being “fair” in calling NBM a criminal organisation. They have pointed out a number of times that not ALL members are murderers. That’s actually true. But that doesn’t make NBM a non-criminal organsation because:
1) it is a criminal organisation according to Nigerian law (even though NBM have their [criminal] ways of evading the law)
2) members are involved in a million other crimes too, not only killing
3) we are not talking about individual members here but the organisation as such, which is factually all about campus violence, political malpractice, election rigging, nepotism, corruption and last but not least 419 on a massive level, human trafficking, forced prostitution and so on.

Here is just a small collection of evidence in support of my statement so that readers can determine on their own whether or not it is unfair to call NBM a criminal organization:

 

BAYELSA STATE SECRET CULTS/SOCIETIES AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES (PROHIBITION) LAW, 2012

http://news.naij.com/28543.html

http://www.nigeriawatch.org/index.php?html=4

http://www.nannewsngr.com/section/judiciary/police-arraign-alleged-2-cult-members-in-ekiti-state

http://lagosbooksclub.com/fct-secondary-school-students-arrested-after-70-were-initiated-into-the-black-axe-cult/

http://legisreportsng.com/oddity-imo-police-nab-1103-suspected-cultists-in-4mths/

http://saharareporters.dekodesign.com/columnist/ogaga-ifowodo

2 Women, Baby Shot Dead In Mushin Gang War

http://www.gbooza.com/group/crime/forum/topics/two-confess-to-beheading-student-in-edo#axzz2sn3CrfuX

http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/35317/1/cult-war-claims-5-poly-students-in-auchi.html

http://www.nigeriannewsworld.com/content/cultists-prowl

http://www.nigeriannewsworld.com/content/resurgence-cult-groups

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010810/438586.htm

http://wwrn.org/articles/7699/?&place=nigeria&section=occult

http://www.newswatchngr.com/editorial/prime/2002/22072002/cover10721105011.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/1488255/War-of-the-black-magic-cults-brings-death-to-Nigerias-universities.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/200604110119.html

http://news1.africanseer.com/templates/?a=9022

http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/36976/1/11-killed-in-rival-cult-clashes-in-edo-enugu.html

http://sundaytrust.com.ng/index.php/news/11055-how-cultism-is-inching-deep-into-edo-state

Cult Clash: Students Flee UNILAG Hostels

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/aau-boils-again-as-cult-groups-battle-for-supremacy/

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/45541-two-feared-dead-one-injured-in-ekpoma-cult-clash

http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/six-die-edo-cult-clash

http://naijagists.com/the-black-axe-kkk-cult-groups-clash-4-killed/

http://www.punchng.com/metro/two-killed-as-cult-members-clash-in-aibom/

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/national/cult-clash-1-killed-in-enugu/

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/latest-addition/185618-cult-war-between-aiye-confraternity-and-black-axe-in-benin-city-leaves-6-dead.html

http://www.9jabook.com/forum/topics/lasu-cult-war-black-axe-maintains-forgiveness-is-a-sin-says-more

http://www.nigerianeye.com/2013/03/more-blood-to-flow-in-lasu-rival-cult.html?m=1

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/en/component/k2/item/12952-cultism-in-lagos-the-unending-war.html

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=118701:police-arrest-judges-son-other-suspected-cultists&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/15-more-suspected-cultists-arrested-in-lagos/

http://www.tmreporter.com/top-news/cultists-kill-yet-another-lasu-student/

http://nigerianuniversitynews.com/2013/03/breaking-undergraduate-student-4-others-die-in-lagos-cult-clash.html

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/news-news/54219-five-killed-in-c-river-violence

http://news.naij.com/28543.html

http://www.punchng.com/news/20-killed-in-edo-cult-clashes-10-arrested/

http://www.thescoopng.com/the-cult-clash-in-edo-has-now-claimed-at-least-20-lives-how-this-latest-episode-began/

http://www.thegazellenews.com/2013/07/04/two-arrested-over-eiye-black-axes-cult-clash-in-ogun/

http://www.biglawnewsline.com/2013/09/suspected-leader-of-black-axe-cult.html

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/3-killed-edo-renewed-cult-clash/

http://www.cityvoiceng.com/gang-violence-tears-at-heart-of-lagos-communities/#comment-175

http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7660.htm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/italian-and-nigerian-gangs-a-deadly-alliance-2361393.html

http://www.articolotre.com/2011/09/arresti-in-campania-per-black-axe-la-mafia-nigeriana/37211

http://www.agropolinews.com/agropoli/agropoli-lunedi-si-presenta-un-rapporto-sulla-criminalita-estera-in-italia/

http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7660.htm

http://newmail-ng.com/new/ngige-nwoye-different-faces-of-the-same-coin/

http://www.elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/17417-revealed-how-arthur-eze-used-tony-nwoye-to-spite-andy-ubah-nwoye-s-criminality-exposed

http://www.gbooza.com/group/crime/forum/topics/thanks-to-2011-politics-cults#axzz2tz5X9IfR

2 cult members confess being hired assassins

http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7660.htm</ref&gt;

http://ilevbare.com/2013/06/a-plea-to-governor-adams-oshiomhole-disincentivizing-cultism-in-edo-state-by-paul-omoruyi/

http://www.punchng.com/news/edo-cult-groups-unite-to-fight-kidnapping-robbery/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/cultists-hold-security-summit-edo/

http://www.punchng.com/news/edo-cult-groups-unite-to-fight-kidnapping-robbery/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/enugu-police-burst-another-baby-making-factory/

http://www.nigerianpilot.com/police-arrest-29-cultists-in-asaba/

http://www.mydailynewswatchng.com/2013/07/08/police-arrest-7-cultists-fake-currency-trafficker/

http://nigeriasrenaissance.com/index.php/news/general/item/26071-police-arrest-5-secondary-students-for-cultism-in-fct

http://news.naij.com/39799.html

http://www.nigerianmonitor.com/2014/01/11/140-suspected-cultists-arrested-in-delta-state/

http://www.nigerianmonitor.com/2014/02/05/5-futo-cultists-arrested-in-imo/

http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/3632

Mushin residents celebrate as police arrest suspected cultist charged with 10 murders (PICTURED)

http://www.punchng.com/metro/police-arrest-another-wanted-cultist-in-lagos/

http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,4565c2254a,4565c25f58d,42df61462,0,,,NGA.html

http://www.academia.edu/255509/The_Roots_of_Cultism_and_other_Forms_of_Violence_in_Nigerian_Universities

http://www.economist.com/node/11849078

http://saharareporters.dekodesign.com/interview/cultism-campuses

http://saharareporters.dekodesign.com/article/campus-cults-how-mass-based-students-unionism-can-be-counterweight-cultism

http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/publications/jekayinoluwa/book%208.%20CULT%20ACTIVITIES%20IN%20THE%20NIGERIAN%20INSTITUTIONS%20%20OF%20HIG.htm

http://www.naijapals.com/?L=blogs.blog&article=41961

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/nigeria1007/4.htm

http://gnosis.aisi.gov.it/Gnosis/Rivista3.nsf/ServNavigE/15