W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L: • My travails Declares Mad man with pile, who ate faeces, healed after 17 years

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For 17 years, Mr. Chinedu Onuoha was in another world. He was one of mad men and only ate from refuse dumps, most often his own faeces. Those who knew him, as he roamed the Aroma Junction and Government House, Awka axis, along the Enugu-Onitsha expressway, were moved by his plight, as he was not just a mad man, but also had pile that protruded from his anus. 
His fate changed when he came in
contact with Chief (Mrs.) Flora Ilonzo of the famous Centre for Psychic and Healing Administration (CPHA), Awka, Anambra State, who returned him from the biblical valley of shadows of death to the land of the living.

Before then, Chinedu was “notorious” in the city, as he went about naked with the huge reddish pile protruding from his anus that constantly dropped faeces. His pathetic and near eye-sore posture then made it difficult for any Awka resident to pass by him without noticing it.
The sight of him by food vendors around their business places then used to cause a stir, just as he earned himself a sobriquet with which Awka residents distinguished him from other mad men in town. They called him, Onye Ara Pile, meaning a mad man with pile. Then no one knew where he came from, as no one could dare to stand close to engage him in a discussion.
His fortunes, however, changed one day when Mrs. Ilonzo, a traditional medicine practitioner and proprietor of CPHA braved it, picked him up, cleaned and started to heal him. She eventually healed both his pile and insanity. Today, Chinedu is hale and hearty again.
Ilonzo and her centre did not stop at that. They organised what they called a send-off party for Chinedu, which took place on July 22, in his father’s compound at Ezimoha, Isiala Mbano, where he  was officially handed over to his people. The entire community of Ezimoha, in Isiala Mbano Local Government of Imo State, was thrown into jubilation, as the CPHA convoy arrived with Chinedu to meet his relations. Many of them could not recognise him, especially those who were still very young when he left 17 years ago.
For those who knew him and what befell him, it was difficult to recognise the new-look Chinedu, as he was smartly dressed in a well-made blazer.

However, the jubilant natives and their visitors could not hold back tears when Chinedu took the microphone and told the story of his life, chronicling his journey from Lagos to the village and to Awka, where he eventually got his healing. 
He did not betray any sign of emotion, as he continued with his story, ignoring his audience and staff of the centre who were all in tears as he spoke. Though he barely remembered how it all started, he recalled that he fell sick, but his brother, who is a rich man in Lagos, did not really do anything to help his condition. He was later brought back to his village from when he began roaming the streets.
“At one time, my brother came back from the city and put a chain on my hands and legs, threw me in a room and locked me up there, and left  for Lagos with the keys. I was fed occasionally through a hole under the door, and most times, I felt so hungry and had to resort to eating my faeces when there was no food,” he said.
For six months, he was locked up in the room until the day his brother returned from Lagos. He recalled that he had heard his brother telling their other relatives that he had come to take him away. Chijioke had explained to his siblings that there was a crusade at Mgbidi, a town in Imo State, and that he would be taking him (Chinedu) to the place for healing. 

He revealed that he did not know that his brother had other plans, as he took him at night and bundled him into his car’s trunk and sped off. He disclosed that his brother got to Awka, Anambra State late in the night, stopped and shoved him out of the car in front of the Anambra Government House, from where he then started to roam the streets of Awka.

His words: “My brother with whom I stayed in Lagos then brought me home and locked me up in a room, and took away the keys for six months. I was only fed through a hole under the door. My brother came back one day and said there was a crusade at Mgbidi and that he was taking me there. I did not know he was lying.  He bound my hands and feet, carried me in his car at night and dumped me in a place I later found out to be in Anambra State. Since the last seven years, I have been strolling around the streets of Anambra naked until Mummy Ilonzo picked me up”

Narrating how she came in contact with Chinedu, Mrs. Ilonzo said: “I was coming back from a trip in UK last year, when on arriving in Awka, I saw a group of people gathered by the road side, and when I enquired what was amiss, I was told that a mad man was bathed with hot oil by an akara seller for attempting to steal her wares. On getting close I discovered the mad man was lying on the ground and writhing in pains.”
Mrs. Ilonzo was surprised to notice that the man, besides being insane, also had a pile. She felt the pain the man was going through would be too much for him to bear and resolved to treat him. According to her, when she came back home to her centre, she decided to build a special ward for the mad man while also visiting him every day at the dumpsite with food laced with traditional medicine for his healing.
“When we completed the building, I sent my people to go and bring him. They went to him and when he saw my car, he accepted to follow them when they explained to him that ‘Madam,’ as he knew me, wanted to see him. We first shaved him, cleaned him up and bought clothes for him; then, we started treating him of pile. It was after we were done with the pile that we commenced treatment for his insanity and luckily for us he responded to treatment and here he is today,” an ostensibly happy Mrs Ilonzo said.

She also told Saturday Sun that she was spiritually touched to undertake the task of caring for the man, and was even determined to have him work with her, adding that after his healing, they employed him as a domestic staffer and placed him on salary.
She said: “The reason I am sending him back is for his people to see that he is alive. His brother, the one he accused of being responsible for his predicament, came here the other day when he heard he was still alive and when Chinedu saw him, he raised the alarm, telling me not to welcome him, that he is a very bad man.
“Chinedu even refused to eat the two loaves of bread he brought, claiming they were poisoned. I had to believe him because Chinedu himself has some sort of powers. He had forecast Boko Haram’s attack on innocent Nigerians last year after his healing. He was surprised to know that Obasanjo was no longer the president, and when he was told the president is a man called Goodluck Jonathan, he started crying, saying that a lot of people will die under his government.

“So, we had to believe him when he said his brother was a bad man. We brought him back, so that someone will not harm him in my house and I will be held responsible for his death.” Happy over what Ilonzo and her centre did, the traditional ruler of the community, Eze Adolphus Chikezie, thanked Ilonzo on behalf of the community for the gesture, noting that she has, by her action, demonstrated that Nigeria still has kind-hearted people and urged her not to relent in her good deeds.

-Saturday Sun

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