A 23-year-old man identified as Chiemelie Nnaji, has d!ed after drowning at a river during an exorcism ritual in Enugu. The Nation reports that the victim was popularly known for roasting pork and chicken in front of a motel in Obiagu. He was however known within the neighbourhood to be suffering from epilepsy. It was gathered the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon, June 5, when, Chiemelies mother, popularly known as Ezenwanyi, took him and a middle-aged client, to the river known as Mmiri Ani at Obiagu area of the state capital for a spiritual cleansing. It was gathered that the spiritualist was coaching his son to take over the business from her. Residents of the community say while Ezenwanyi was using a native fowl to conduct the exorcism ritual inside the river, Chiemelie relapsed into epilepsy and fell deep into the river that was chest deep. His mother, who was said to be filled with the spirits, however continued chanting incantations, refusing to render any assistance to the drowning man despite being notified by her client. It was further learnt it was the female client who forced the exercise to stop and raised the alarm that attracted people from the neighbourhood, who helped to rescue Chiemelies drowning body while he was said to still be alive. He sadly died after being rejected at two different hospitals. When we got to the river, we met Ezenwanyi chanting incantations while the other woman was crying helplessly. But we managed to bring him out and took him to the hospital. The two hospitals we took him to rejected him. It was at the third hospital that he was pronounced dead, an eyewitness said The state police command is said to have arrested the spiritualist. The post Man drowns during clients spiritual cleansing in Enugu river appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.Man drowns during clientâs spiritual cleansing in Enugu river
A 23-year-old man identified as Chiemelie Nnaji, has d!ed after drowning at a river during an exorcism ritual in Enugu. The Nation reports that the victim was popularly known for roasting pork and chicken in front of a motel in Obiagu. He was however known within the neighbourhood to be suffering from epilepsy. It was gathered the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon, June 5, when, Chiemelies mother, popularly known as Ezenwanyi, took him and a middle-aged client, to the river known as Mmiri Ani at Obiagu area of the state capital for a spiritual cleansing. It was gathered that the spiritualist was coaching his son to take over the business from her. Residents of the community say while Ezenwanyi was using a native fowl to conduct the exorcism ritual inside the river, Chiemelie relapsed into epilepsy and fell deep into the river that was chest deep. His mother, who was said to be filled with the spirits, however continued chanting incantations, refusing to render any assistance to the drowning man despite being notified by her client. It was further learnt it was the female client who forced the exercise to stop and raised the alarm that attracted people from the neighbourhood, who helped to rescue Chiemelies drowning body while he was said to still be alive. He sadly died after being rejected at two different hospitals. When we got to the river, we met Ezenwanyi chanting incantations while the other woman was crying helplessly. But we managed to bring him out and took him to the hospital. The two hospitals we took him to rejected him. It was at the third hospital that he was pronounced dead, an eyewitness said The state police command is said to have arrested the spiritualist. The post Man drowns during clients spiritual cleansing in Enugu river appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.
