As part of its efforts to bring sanity to the practice of traditional medicine, the Ogun State Alternate Medicine Board, OGAMB, has put necessary machinery in place to uncover quacks across the State.

The Board Chairman, Balogun Nurudeen Olaleye stated this at the 2021 end of the year stakeholders' meeting and review of the Board's activities during the year, held at the block D complex , Governor's Office , Oke Mosan , Abeokuta Ogun State.

Balogun Olaleye advised practitioners to register and mobilise themselves in order to identify qualified members and reduce incidence of criminality in the practice of alternate medicine in Ogun State.

The Ogun State Alternate Medicine Board chairman who told the stakeholders that the board would commence enforcement in third week in January 2022 explained that necessary logistics and awareness campaign programme that would ensure reorientation training and workshop for all the practitioners across the state had been put in place.


His words" we have been working with all the necessary security Agency and held meeting with the key stakeholders on Alternate Medicine in the state. And after due consultations with all the concerned bodies from both Government and private sector a date was fixed for the enforcement which will expose those that failed to register with the board."

Speaking at the meeting, Yeye Abatan Oreagba of Ogun State, appreciated the State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun for Supporting the native healers and Traditional believers and applauded the Board Chairman Balogun Nurudeen Olaleye and other Board members for their selfless Services and commitment at ensuring that the subsector stand-out successfully and particularly the best coordinated Board in Nigeria.

In his response, Chief Samson Soyoye , Congratulated the Ogun State Alternate Medicine Board Chairman and members for promoting the state Alternate medicine board to enviable height at any given opportunity, saying that the Board is among the front burner in the country, competing favourably with some Boards that had been established 15 to 40 years ago.