FG to reward traditionalist with car, house, for healing 9-year-old prostate cancer

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THE Federal Government has promised to reward a trado-medical practitioner in Ebiraland, Kogi State, Mr Adai Giwa, for healing Mr Ibeneme Ugomba, of nine-year prostate cancer and blood in his urine.

Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, made this promise when he visited 90-year-old Giwa in his home town.

Onu said: “We are appealing that Nigerians see the nation as one that is self-reliant because the solution to our problem resides here. We are doing this to let other Nigerians know that they should release the secrets that can help cure diseases so that it can be worked on and developed into drugs by pharmaceutical companies”.

He said the government would reward Giwa with a four-bedroom bungalow and an automobile to ease his work, while appealing to other Nigerians to reveal secrets behind herbal treatments and make them available to research institutes for proper utilisation.

On his part, Mr Mohammed Giwa, who spoke on behalf of the traditionalist, said he did not have the opportunity to have western education, but that what he lacked in western education, he made up for in traditional medicine, as he learned first-hand traditional healing from his great-grandfather.

He said he had successfully cured and treated so many diseases, which included diabetes, dysentery, piles, hypertension, weak erection, epilepsy, mental disorder, gonorrhea, fibroid, among others.

Giwa solicited financial assistance to help make his healing centre known to the world, so that most of the curable diseases that were not known to the people could be put to an end and also save lives from untimely death due to lack of information and ignorance.

Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole whose message was delivered by the Director-General of National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Development (NIPRD), Professor Karniyus Gamaniel, noted that there was no conflict between orthodox traditional medicine and science, as both field could work together for the betterment of the society at large.