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Why Okpebholo should fund traditional medicine board adequately
Written By: Michael Odigbe
29 Apr 2025 10:11 AM
To start with, I commend Governor Monday Okpebholo for setting up Edo State Traditional Medicine Board. His predecessors, Obaseki, never give a hoot about traditional medicine during his tenure. So, for 8 years of Obaseki traditional medicine was in the doldrums.
One man who celebrated the establishment of the board is Mr Celestine Agbor Usi. He is very passionate about traditional medicine because he believes in using our indigenous African technology to curb corruption, crime and criminality in Edo as well as other parts of Nigeria.
Usi does not hide his hatred for the failed foreign, Westernized security arrangement in the country which encourage crime rather than eliminate it. For him, the only solution to the rising incidence of crime is the deployment of traditional medicine and religion.
In specific terms, Usi is always saying that Nigerians must now resort to the use of the Third Eye to detect, investigate, prosecute:and fight crime to a standstill.
He argues that our medicine men should wake up from slumber and start using the Third Eye and other resources to chase away criminals from Edo State as a test case.and return the state to its former peaceful condition.
This is the message I joined him in taking to the Edo State Traditional Board office on February 10, 2025. While there, we met with the likeable, accessible chairman of the board Chief Abudu Ugbesia (JP) who was delighted to see us.
After introductions, I explained that we came to congratulate him on his appointment as well as partner with him to make the board succeed in its mandate. Thereafter, Mr Usi spoke. Firstly, he revealed that fraudsters have invaded traditional medicine practice in Edo State from his painful personal experience. So, he urged Chief Abudu Ugbesia to ensure that his board rids the state of these evil miscreants giving the state a bad name.
Also, Mr Usi noted that there is a need to expand the mandate of the board to include the harnessing of the massive potentials of Edo traditional medicine men to provide security for the state at a cost that will be cheaper than the huge expenditure on security now appropriated for relatively ineffective Nigeria Police Force, DSS, NSCDC as well as other agencies.
At this juncture I joined Usi in citing practical evidence of how there was peace in the olden days when Indigenous traditional medicine held sway in our land. Indeed, these were days when honeybees were sent by our medicine men to neutralize our enemies or thunder despatched to destroy them. So, peace reigned in the land. There was security. No petty thieves, armed robbers, arsonists or kidnappers. None. But today things have changed. There is insecurity everywhere in Edo State.
The solution? Usi canvassed that Governor Monday Okpebholo should work closely with Edo State Traditional Medicine Board to fashion out a strategic security template for fighting the rising wave of crime in the state using an amalgam of Third Eye indigenous technology.
Chief Abudu Ugbesia listened attentively. He agreed with Usi's submissions citing how oracular formula to combat the menace of delinquents in his Irrua axis of Edo State some time ago. He promised to make presentations to the governor on how to fight insecurity in Edo State with our African system.
In essence, Edo State Traditional Medicine Board under Chief Abudu Ugbesia now has a lot to do. The board has to give Edo citizens a booming botanical garden at Obayantor, create an authentic, clean, comprehensive and credible register of active traditional medicine practitioners in the state and rid the state of quacks.
Also, the board needs to set up offices in all the 18 local government areas of Edo State as advised by Usi in additional to arranging for retraining seminars; workshops for upgrading traditional medicine practitioners in the state.
Beyond these, it is mandatory the board partner Edo State Government to give all Edo residents and citizens security.
Hence, Usi and I are looking forward to a Strategic Edo State Medicine Practitioner Stakeholders' Security Summit in Benin City, the state capital.
Money is required to carry out all these progressive activities. That is why we are pleading with Governor Monday Okpebholo to properly begin to properly fund Edo State Traditional Medicine Board.
One man who celebrated the establishment of the board is Mr Celestine Agbor Usi. He is very passionate about traditional medicine because he believes in using our indigenous African technology to curb corruption, crime and criminality in Edo as well as other parts of Nigeria.
Usi does not hide his hatred for the failed foreign, Westernized security arrangement in the country which encourage crime rather than eliminate it. For him, the only solution to the rising incidence of crime is the deployment of traditional medicine and religion.
In specific terms, Usi is always saying that Nigerians must now resort to the use of the Third Eye to detect, investigate, prosecute:and fight crime to a standstill.
He argues that our medicine men should wake up from slumber and start using the Third Eye and other resources to chase away criminals from Edo State as a test case.and return the state to its former peaceful condition.
This is the message I joined him in taking to the Edo State Traditional Board office on February 10, 2025. While there, we met with the likeable, accessible chairman of the board Chief Abudu Ugbesia (JP) who was delighted to see us.
After introductions, I explained that we came to congratulate him on his appointment as well as partner with him to make the board succeed in its mandate. Thereafter, Mr Usi spoke. Firstly, he revealed that fraudsters have invaded traditional medicine practice in Edo State from his painful personal experience. So, he urged Chief Abudu Ugbesia to ensure that his board rids the state of these evil miscreants giving the state a bad name.
Also, Mr Usi noted that there is a need to expand the mandate of the board to include the harnessing of the massive potentials of Edo traditional medicine men to provide security for the state at a cost that will be cheaper than the huge expenditure on security now appropriated for relatively ineffective Nigeria Police Force, DSS, NSCDC as well as other agencies.
At this juncture I joined Usi in citing practical evidence of how there was peace in the olden days when Indigenous traditional medicine held sway in our land. Indeed, these were days when honeybees were sent by our medicine men to neutralize our enemies or thunder despatched to destroy them. So, peace reigned in the land. There was security. No petty thieves, armed robbers, arsonists or kidnappers. None. But today things have changed. There is insecurity everywhere in Edo State.
The solution? Usi canvassed that Governor Monday Okpebholo should work closely with Edo State Traditional Medicine Board to fashion out a strategic security template for fighting the rising wave of crime in the state using an amalgam of Third Eye indigenous technology.
Chief Abudu Ugbesia listened attentively. He agreed with Usi's submissions citing how oracular formula to combat the menace of delinquents in his Irrua axis of Edo State some time ago. He promised to make presentations to the governor on how to fight insecurity in Edo State with our African system.
In essence, Edo State Traditional Medicine Board under Chief Abudu Ugbesia now has a lot to do. The board has to give Edo citizens a booming botanical garden at Obayantor, create an authentic, clean, comprehensive and credible register of active traditional medicine practitioners in the state and rid the state of quacks.
Also, the board needs to set up offices in all the 18 local government areas of Edo State as advised by Usi in additional to arranging for retraining seminars; workshops for upgrading traditional medicine practitioners in the state.
Beyond these, it is mandatory the board partner Edo State Government to give all Edo residents and citizens security.
Hence, Usi and I are looking forward to a Strategic Edo State Medicine Practitioner Stakeholders' Security Summit in Benin City, the state capital.
Money is required to carry out all these progressive activities. That is why we are pleading with Governor Monday Okpebholo to properly begin to properly fund Edo State Traditional Medicine Board.
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