Anambra State Executive Council, ANSEC, has criticized those demonizing and misrepresenting the new Anambra State Homeland Security Law 2025 as being against traditional worship, noting that the law is an essential component of Igbo traditional religion and culture.

 

While reviewing the impact of the new state law at its second meeting of the year held at the Council Chamber, ANSEC restated that the new law was designed to combat crime and criminality committed by quacks and evil native doctors, particularly those who pervert and alter the core values of the Igbo society, those who promote and teach the acquisition of wealth without work, and those who deceive the younger generation and unwary members of society.

 

In a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor, the Council further reaffirmed that the state government has not, and will not outlaw traditional worship, and further called for moral rearmament, as well as social re-engineering in order to restore the lost values of the society and ensure a healthy future for the state.

 

ANSEC also gave the new security intervention, Operation Udo Ga-Achi, a high rating and urged it not to relent in the fight against insecurity in the state.