Chairman of the group, Chief Innocent Okwundu, gave the pledge during a parley with leadership of the Anambra House of Assembly in Awka on Thursday.

Okwundu, who led no fewer than 500 members to the Assembly said the recently enacted Anambra Homeland Security Law and the Agunechemba Security Outfit were positive development in the fight against crime.

He pledged the readiness of native doctors to collaborate with the legislature to smoothen rough edges and tighten loose ends for proper regulation of the practice.

“We must avoid intimidation and rip off of our members especially in the rural communities. We will contribute towards ensuring that the law guarantees us independence and smooth operations.

“We will assist in identifying those who have bastardised the traditional medicine in Anambra and expose those aiding or involved in the ‘Okeite’ or money ritual saga.

Responding, Dr Somtochukwu Udeze, Speaker of the House of Assembly said the Homeland Security Law of the Gov. Chukwuma Soludo’s administration meant well for the people.

Udeze, who was represented by Mr Ikenna Ofodeme, said there was a bill underway to address some of the areas they expressed worry.

He said the law will bring about synergy and cooperation between the government and the native doctors, adding that registration of practitioners by the state government was free.

The Speaker cautioned community leaders against taking undue advantage of the situation to extort people as the government will not take it lightly with anybody apprehended.(NAN)

Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, which he signed on his first day in office, was blocked by federal district courts in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington state.

Birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which decrees that anyone born on American soil is a citizen, and Trump’s order seeks to end it for children whose parents are in the country illegally.

In an emergency application with the Supreme Court, the Justice Department sought to narrow the scope of the nationwide lower court injunctions to the individual plaintiffs in the three cases.

The department’s acting solicitor general Sarah Harris described it as a “modest” request and she notably did not seek a ruling from the Supreme Court at this time as to whether eliminating birthright citizenship is constitutional or not.

“Those universal injunctions prohibit a Day 1 Executive Order from being enforced anywhere in the country,” Harris wrote.

“While the parties litigate weighty merits questions, the Court should ‘restrict the scope’ of multiple preliminary injunctions that ‘purport to cover every person in the country,’ limiting those injunctions to parties actually within the courts’ power,” she said.

Trump has been facing legal pushback in courts across the country as he attempts to stem illegal immigration, slash the government budget and reduce the federal workforce.

In his latest setback, a district judge in California on Thursday ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of probationary workers who had been fired.