Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has revealed that 23 indigenes of the state are currently on death row in Indonesia for drug-related offences.

Soludo blamed the development on fake native doctors who deceive young people into believing they can evade security checks when smuggling drugs by using charms.

He said some of those native doctors have their family members earning from minimal jobs and struggling to make ends meet. And why can’t they do the same charms for them.

“Go to Indonesia, 23 Ndi Anambra are on death row there for drug-related offences,” he said.

“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,” he stated.

“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).”

The governor said such beliefs were damaging the mindset of youths in the state.

“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.

“We are not against traditional worshippers; what we are against is people who are doing dangerous medicines and charms.

“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,” he said.