LAGOS – Chief Emeka Agba, the founder of Chief Emeka Agba Foundation, has blamed the activities of native doctors for contributing to the increasing insecurity in Anambra State and other states in the Southeast by making charms that purport to make criminals invisible and stop bullets from penetrating them.
In an interview on Monday, Agba, who is the Odagbulu Ihe Dagbulu Ihe Dagbulu Enyi 1 of Igboland, said that “the native doctors give charms to kidnappers, robbers, gunmen and other criminals that make have a sense of invisibility that emboldens to commit all manner of crime.
“I believe that the activities of native doctors are promoting insecurity in the state and I believe that if they are uprooted from the state, the level of insecurity will fall in the state,” he said.
The entrepreneur and businessman called on the state government to crackdown on the activities of the native doctors and stop them from making young people believe that they can make money from performing rituals.
“How can a young man believe that he can become rich by killing people and performing a ritual; that mindset must change through education and counseling,” he stated.
Agba also called on the state government to curb the activities of some pastors, who he accused of teaching young people that they can make money by doing nothing and praying to get rich. He argued that the trend is young people to be lazy.
However, he lauded the ‘Agunechemba’ community policing initiative, adding that it will reduce criminal activities in the state.
“It is a welcome development because it is community-based and members of each community know one another and what each person does,” he posited.
But Agba argued that the initiative ought to have been done in collaboration with other states in the Southeast region because, according to him, criminals operate across borders in the region.
He said that a majority of the people who commit crime in the state come from other states in the region, adding that most of the crime takes place at the borders.
He opined that states in the Southeast should emulate those in the Southwest and form a regional security outfit to combat crime in the region
