We’ll Expose Pastors Who Patronise Us For Spiritual Powers To Agunechemba – Anambra Native Doctors Threaten

Native doctors in Anambra State have threatened to submit names of pastors to security for scrutiny, fww days after a protest against what they called stigmatisation and witch hunting by Agunechemba security outfit.

Led by High Priest Ikele, the native doctors accused the Anambra government of harassing their members, contending that their constitutional rights to freedom of religion were being trampled upon by Governor Chukwuma Soludo and his security outfit.

They also contended that the state government has not done the needful of liaising with them to help fish out bad eggs among them, insisting that there was a calculated attempt to kill traditional religious practice Igboland.

One of the members who gave his name as Mazi Chukwuka Nwankwo announced that the body has commenced the compilation of fake pastors in the state, who he alleged patronise shrines to seek spiritual assistance aimed at increasing the number of their congregations.

“Our governor is preaching ecumenism which means the union of all religions, and we ask, is the traditional religion not part of ecumenism?

“What are we talking about here? Some of those pastors that hold night vigils and perform miracles are fake and they come to us to obtain spiritual powers to increase the number of their congregation and we have always turned them down because it is against our religion to be defrauding innocent people.

“There are some that go as far as other parts of the country to obtain spiritual powers and so-called holy oil that they use in pushing people down in the name of anointing.

“Governor Soludo should send Agunechemba to those crusades and night vigils to understudy what they do in their churches and how they rip off innocent people by compelling them to buy holy water, holy oil and holy handkerchiefs so that the people’s businesses would flourish. Those unsuspecting worshippers pay huge sums of money to obtain those things and they are not paying taxes or levies to the state government,” he alleged.

“The Anambra State government should beam their searchlight on all these new generation churches because they are the worst set of swindlers and also convince us and the public that they are not out to witch hunt us, native doctors,” he said.

Consequent to this growing crisis some pastors are said to be making frantic efforts to reach out to some security operatives to persuade them not to visit their churches. But no security operatives have confirmed this.

Similarly, some native doctors have reportedly commenced visitation of the suspected churches issuing warnings that they would be exposed since they have refused to come out to speak for them after assisting them to increase the population of their congregations.

(The Sun, excluding headline)