Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, says 23 indigenes of
the state are currently on death row in Indonesia due to drug-related offences.
Soludo spoke on Wednesday, while addressing members of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) who defected to the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA) to support his re-election bid.
“Go to Indonesia, 23 Ndi Anambra are on death row there for
drug-related offences,” he said.
“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.”
Soludo warned against the deceptive practices of some native
doctors, noting that anyone who claims to have such powers would be arrested by
the state government.
“If he makes one person a millionaire, we will bring Anambra
people and line them up. Don’t you want an Anambra where everyone will be a
millionaire? I will equally present myself because I need money too,” he said.
“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).”
Soludo reiterated the negative impact of such beliefs on
young people.
“That is why you see young people who wake up in the morning
and retire to beer parlours drinking, hoping to get rich later in life,” he
added.
The governor clarified that the state is not against
traditional worshippers but against those engaging in dangerous practices.
“We are not against traditional worshippers; what we are
against is people who are doing dangerous medicines and charms,” he said.
“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 reiterated his commitment to the ongoing clampdown on
native doctors promoting oke-ite (get-rich-quick charm).
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