Ezekiel Awojide
The Governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has said that 23 indigenes of the state are currently on death row in Indonesia due to drug-related offences.
He warned indigenes of the state to steer clear of native doctors who deceive them that they would provide them with charms that would blind scanners at airports whenever they carry drugs.
The governor spoke on Wednesday while addressing members of the All Progressives Congress who defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance.
The defectors joined the ruling party in the state to enable Soludo to win the forthcoming governorship election.
Soludo said, “Go to Indonesia, 23 Ndi Anambra people are on death row there for drug-related offences.
“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
.“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).
“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.’’
