The Commissioner for Culture, Entertainment, and Tourism in Anambra State, Don Onyenji, has denied that the state government threatened to ban traditional worship.
Onyenji made the statement at a stakeholders’ meeting in Awka on Thursday.
He said that Governor Charles Soludo only called for the registration of all traditional religious leaders and custodians of shrines in the state.
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The commissioner described religion as a collection of social and cultural systems involving core beliefs, practices, and morals that were needed in human society.
Onyenji said that the activities of some native doctors and custodians of shrines in the state encouraged criminality.
According to him, the governor had said that he would prosecute any native doctor or shrine worshipper found to be preparing charms for robbers or fortifying kidnappers.