The Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Law Mefor, has clarified that the high-profile native doctors currently in detention over their alleged involvement in criminal activities are still being detained on the orders of the court pending the determination of the criminal suit against them.
Mefor was reacting to rumours making the rounds across the state that the native doctors were deliberately detained in different detention facilities of the “Operation Udo-Ga-Achi” security outfit without being arraigned in court for trial.
Three prominent native doctors – Onyebuchi Okocha (popularly known as Onye Eze Jesus), Chidozie Nwangwu (Akwa Okuko), and Ekene Igboekweze (Eke Hit) – were arrested in February following Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s crackdown on the activities of traditional spiritualists in the state.
Following their arrest and subsequent detention, the three of them were docked at the Anambra State High Court, Awka, and after taking their pleas, the matter was adjourned, where it is still pending.
Their arraignment came about a month after they were arrested and detained for various offences bordering on “money ritual”, “oke ite” and “preparation of charms for criminals”, among others.
Since then, questions have been raised over their whereabouts and legal status, with claims circulating that they were being held by the state’s vigilante-backed security outfit without being charged.
But speaking to journalists at CANA House in Awka on Wednesday, the state Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor, dismissed the allegations, stating that the suspects had been arraigned before a high court in Awka and were being detained legally.
He said, “Udo-Ga-Achi is made up of vigilante groups and police and those high-profile native doctors being detained like Onyebuchi Okocha (alias Onye Eze Jesus), Chidozie Nwangwu (a.k.a. Akwa Okuko), Ekene Igboekweze (alias Eke Hit, and others are not being detained without the approval of the police.
“However, if you feel your right is being trampled upon, you go to court to seek redress. Nobody is being held unduly. All these native doctors, none of them is being held by us, they are being held under the order of the court.
“Police is part of the ‘Udo-Ga-Achi’ security outfit, the suspects may be detained wherever the police approve the suspects arrested should be and that has been the practice. People who are saying they are being detained, where do you keep suspects, in the Vatican?
“They should be detained somewhere until they are taken to court. Nobody is being held in Anambra unduly. They are there under the orders of the court and releasing them means disobeying order of court.”
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