Police in pursuit for "native doctor" who treated robbery suspect

Manhunt has been intensified by the Enugu State Police Command for a herbalist who allegedly treat robbery suspect who escape with bullet wounds during a gun battle with the police in his herbal clinic.

This was contained in a release titled, “Enugu herbalist on the run over treatment of robbery suspect,” made available to newsmen yesterday by the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Superintendent Ebere Amaraizu.

He revealed that the native doctor treated the suspect in his clinic located at Orba in Udenu Local Government Council.

The statement read,s “Operatives of the Enugu State command of the Police have intensified manhunt with a view to fishing out a herbalist who treats wounded armed robbery suspects in his herbal clinic located at Orba in Udenu local Government Area of Enugu State and its environs.

“It was gathered that the herbalist who is said to have abandoned his herbal clinic for fear of being nabbed had allegedly taken custody of a suspected armed robbery suspect who gave his name as one Ambrose Okwudili Ugwu of Isiamaelu village Ohodo in Igboetiti Local Government Area of Enugu state and was giving him treatment until operatives working on information struck in his herbal clinic and met his absence even as the suspect was promptly arrested with bullet wounds.

“It was further gathered that the suspect alongside others had alleged blocked the Enugu/Markurdi expressway by Echara Ohodo with heavy logs of wood and were holding motorists hostage at about 2am on June 18, 2016 before a combined team of Special Anti- Robbery Squad, SARS, Enugu State and military men acting on a tip off promptly swung into action and in the ensuing exchange of gun duel, hoodlums believed to have been touched by bullet escaped into the bush until July 1, 2016, (when, through intelligence information) the herbal clinic was raided where one of the suspected robbery suspect was nabbed … while receiving herbal treatment.

“The said herbalist has taken to his heels. (The robbery) suspect is now helping the operatives in their investigations just as manhunt for the herbalist is (being) intensified.”