The government of Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has said enough is enough to the nefarious and inhumane activities of daredevils called unknown gunmen causing havoc in the state.
Soludo in a statement released on Thursday by the Chief Press Secretary Mr Christian Aburime, resolved to fish out native doctors providing operational charms for the hoodlums, saying that henceforth all alternative medicine practitioners and spiritualists in the state would be identified by the government.
The statement reads, ” The attention of Anambra State Government has been drawn to several mischievous write-ups and misleading comments about the State engaging Traditional Spiritualists to combat insecurity.
While it is general knowledge that government alone cannot fight insecurity, it is instructive to note that the story of engaging Traditional Spiritualists by the Anambra State Government to fight insecurity is not true as being peddled by some mischief makers.
What the State Government has said as explained by the Commissioner of Information, Sir Paul Nwosu, is that Anambra State Executive Council (ANSEC) has approved the registration of Traditional Medicine Practitioners and categorized them under Herbalists and Spiritualists with a view to identifying those among them that support and protect criminals.
The Commissioner in his statement to the press categorically stated: “Government has discovered that some native doctors provide charms with which gunmen operate and it has therefore become necessary to enumerate and register them as practitioners, categorised into Herbalists and Spiritualists.
