Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has warned residents not to be swayed by fraudulent native doctors promising wealth without effort.
soludo expressed his willingness to test any native doctor’s abilities to make him wealthy, as he is also in need of wealth.
The governor emphasized that if such a person is able to deliver on their promise, he would introduce them to the people of Anambra State to ensure everyone benefits.
Governor Soludo made these remarks during a speech to members of the APC who had defected to APGA to support his re-election bid.
The state government has been cracking down on criminal native doctors claiming to provide riches and protection for kidnappers, with about 40 currently in custody.
There has also been an outcry by some people who see the arrest as an attack on traditional religion practitioners, but the governor has insisted that he is not after traditional worshipers but criminal native doctors who have been reaping people off.
Soludo said: “Go to Indonesia, 23 Ndi Anambra are on death row there for drug related offenses. These native doctors will deceive you that they will prepare a charm that when you carry drugs and enter the airport, the white man’s scanner will go blind. These young people believe them and today, many of our people are languishing in jail across the world.
“Let me tell you, if you see anyone who is professing to have the powers to make people rich, tell us, we will arrest him and bring him to Awka. If he makes one person a millionaire, we will bring Anambra people and line them up. Don’t you want an Anambra that everyone will be a millionaire? I will equally present myself because I need money too.
“One of the native doctors who is in detention, his son is a waiter in a hotel in Nnewi. If it was that simple why didn’t he make his son a millionaire? One of them that we arrested has sworn that he is just a content creator, yet he has used things like these to deceive our young people that you can become rich without doing any work, as far as you have done Oke Ite (money rituals).
“That is why you see young people who wake up in the morning and retire to a beer parlour drinking, hoping to get rich later I life.
“We are not against traditional worshipers, what we are against is people who are doing dangerous medicines and charms. We have always known those who are into traditional practices, they have things they believe in, and they were about the most upright people then. Those were people who believed that if you did the wrong thing, you could be killed by the gods of the land. But what these new crop of criminal native doctors are doing is deceit, and we will not allow that to continue,” Soludo stated.
