Forty youths who claimed to be cultists have renounced their membership of various secret cult groups in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
The repentant youths are mostly students of the University of Calabar and Cross River University of Technology in south-south Nigeria.
They claimed to have been associated with the Pyrates Confraternity, Vikings, Black Axe and Klans among others to perpetuate different crimes in the state.
The youths, comprising of 30 males and 10 females, were led through the denunciation on Thursday by the National Coordinator of Campus Cult Eradication Foundation (CCEF), Samuel Ejembi.
Ejembi, who is also a repentant cultist, said that the CCEF was established to eradicate cultism in tertiary institutions and the larger society.
He urged the society and security agencies to give them the necessary support in living a normal life again and asked the government to engage them in order to earn a living for themselves.
The Commissioner of Police in Cross River State, Mr Jimoh Ozi-Obeh, was represented at the gathering by the command’s spokesperson, ASP Irene Ugbo.
He assured the repentant cultists of adequate Police protection and urged them not to go back to their old ways.
In the past months, Cross River State has been under serious security threats following activities of cult groups which led to the death of dozens.