{"id":232486,"date":"2026-05-06T15:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-enugu-disowns-illegal-levy-on-traditional-medicine-practitioners\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:47:32","slug":"nigeria-enugu-disowns-illegal-levy-on-traditional-medicine-practitioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-enugu-disowns-illegal-levy-on-traditional-medicine-practitioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Enugu Disowns Illegal Levy On Traditional Medicine Practitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>An official said authorities had been alerted to the &#8220;unwholesome activities&#8221; of individuals harassing practitioners and collecting unapproved levies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moj.en.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enugu State Government<\/a><\/strong> has distanced itself from the activities of a group allegedly extorting traditional medicine practitioners under the guise of acting on behalf of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Onyekwere Nwobodo, special adviser on media to Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State, stated this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Enugu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> |&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605060453.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official said authorities had been alerted to the &#8220;unwholesome activities&#8221; of individuals harassing practitioners and collecting unapproved levies. The Enugu State Government has distanced itself from the activities of a group allegedly extorting traditional medicine practitioners under the guise of acting on behalf of the state. Onyekwere Nwobodo, special adviser on media to Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,26582,12385,6918,12638,7449,257,4687,393,23073,254,9464],"class_list":["post-232486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disowns","tag-enugu","tag-illegal","tag-levy","tag-medicine","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-practitioners","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traditional"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}