The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has revealed that 23 indigenes of the state are currently on death row in Indonesia for drug-related offences, blaming native doctors for their travails.
The governor made the shocking disclosure while addressing a group of defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in support of his re-election bid. “Go to Indonesia, 23 Ndi Anambra are on death row for drug-related offences,” Soludo stated with concern.
Soludo who lamented the situation, attributed the alarming situation to the deceptive influence of fake native doctors who convince unsuspecting youths that they can evade airport security systems through charms and fetish practices.
“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,” he said. “These young people believed them, and today, many of our people are languishing in jails across the world.”
Soludo warned that anyone caught promoting such dangerous and deceptive practices would be arrested, adding that many of the self-proclaimed native doctors lack credibility and live in poor conditions themselves.
“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?” he queried. “One of them that we arrested has sworn that he is just a content creator, yet he has used things like these to deceive young people that they can become rich without doing any work, as far as they have come to Oke Ite (money rituals).”
He lamented that such beliefs are distorting the mindset of many young people, turning them away from hardwork and into hopeless expectations.
“That is why you see young people who wake up in the morning and retire to beer parlours to drink all day, hoping to get rich in life”, he added.
While clarifying that his administration is not opposed to traditional religion or worship, Soludo emphasized that it would not tolerate individuals using spiritual claims to commit fraud and promote dangerous ideologies.
