A mysterious River with
healing powers appeared in a community in Enugu State. According to the people
of the community, the mysterious River appeared in the community in Enugu State
called Nachi, in Udi LGA. The river, now nicked named “Orimiri Jordan” (River
Jordan) was first seen on Nov. 11th.
The community went to look for themselves and discovered that the water has healing powers. But the traditional ruler of Nachi community said something slightly different. He said the river appears every 20 to 30 years but dries up after a few weeks so it wasn't anything new.
An elder in the community explained:
“We noticed that after some years,
the water will form a stream there and would disappear in few weeks. If such
happens, we will be fetching water there. However, women who are menstruating
and evil people don’t go there. We never heard about healing power of the River
until this recent appearance of the River.
“The last time it appeared was in
1992, and at that time, it just formed a small stream, which later disappeared.
It has never been as large as this. This is all I know, we have never known
about its healing power, this is the first time we are hearing about healing, I
don’t whether it is true”.
Meanwhile, Okada people
are already making money from this as they charge passengers between N500 to
N1,000 to transport them from a junction to the Healing River as hundreds visit
the place every day to get some of the water which quite a lot of people
testify has healing powers.
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