Residents of Makurdi, the Benue State capital have been left bewildered as a mentally derailed man identified as Mr Denen has been offering medical services to prove with different health challenges.
Residents have continued to troop to him at the JS Tarka Foundation for medical attention.
A Benue State broadcast platform, Citizen TV visited the venue on Wednesday, and reported the mentally unstable man would upon seeing a patient, write a number of Tiv traditional ailment affecting the person and direct them to different traditional doctors who are expected to treat the patient.
According to a source, the man had Masters Degree from the University of Jos before his unfortunate predicament.
The source said a large number of patients usually gather at the JS Tarka Foundation in High-Level Makurdi to consult the man over their health issues.
According to a lady who gave her name as Sandra, she heard about the man and had to come because she had acute pains in her chest and it seemed to have defied all medical conditions.
Sandra said she had consulted the ‘mad doctor’ and already given a piece of paper containing what was wrong with her and she was going to see a traditional healer.
Another patient Mr Aondohemen who spoke with the Television crew said for him, it was luck.
“He has shown me where to go and I am going there. I heard about him and have to come all the way from my village to try and see how it will go”.
Also a worker of the man who preferred anonymity said, he had part of his head swollen up and had sought medical attention from all the hospitals without any help.
According to him, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom had given him money for treatment on several occasions but it didn’t heal until the day he met the mentally challenged man. He simply asked him to apply a certain herb and he was healed.
A 30-year-old woman who works to support the mad man in attending to people recounted how people had thanked the man for helping them.
“They always come here. After being healed, they come to give him cash donations. Government officials, public servants, policemen and many other people,” She said.
Following the trend, a Facebook user took to his page on Friday to express shock over the activities of the healer-man.
According to him, “I’m a bit confused. I was told of a ‘mad’ native doctor who sits at the entrance of IBB Square Makurdi and prescribes native medicine for sick people within Makurdi town.
However, another beneficiary who from Markurdi, said God was working through the man to heal people of their various diseases.
Let me correct the impression of “Mr Denen,” herein referred to as “a mad man”.
