The Imo State Police Command has warned unlicensed and “mischievous” native doctors operating in the state to vacate or be ready to face the wrath of the law if apprehended.
This followed a communiqué issued at the end of an extraordinary meeting of traditional rulers in the state, led by Eze Emmanuel Okeke, wherein the monarch mandated all existing native doctors and traditionalists in the state to come forward for verification and registration.
The Command’s spokesman, DSP Henry Okoye, stated this during a quarterly meeting between the police and civil society organizations in the state, organized by Cleen Foundation, held at the Command’s headquarters in Owerri over the weekend.
Okoye said the Command has, in the past few years, arrested over 10 native doctors linked to various crimes, including kidnapping, ritual killings, armed robbery, and other related offenses. Most of them were…
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