A Professor at the University of Portharcourt has recounted his near-death experience while searching for a cure for diabetes some years ago.
Professor Andrew Efemini told TPCN about his very close shelve with death in his early struggle to cure diabetes.
The heart-wrenching story would have ended in grief had the Professor not escaped from the clutches of the men who wanted to behead him and his brother.
He advised people to stick to prescriptions by their doctors as there is no known cure for diabetes saying that he has been able to effectively manage the illness since the event occurred.
“As a diabetic since 1996, at the early stage, I was running into people who claimed that there is one cure or the other for diabetes and I traveled from one city to the other looking for cure for diabetes.
“In short, my travel became one of the burdens on my wages. In one instance, I met someone who claimed to be a student in my department at mile 3, the continues education campus.
“He told me that he has someone who had a cure for diabetes. We arranged and drove in my car with my junior brother to a bush before Aba.
“As we were driving into the bush, I was getting more curious and I was complaining ‘how come I am entering a bush to look for cure for diabetes’ but he said that we were very close and before I knew it, we got close to a forest, a lonely place and I saw a small hut
“This person who claimed to be a student came down and entered into the hut and I immediately turned around my car, suspicious that I was in for a very dangerous thing.
“I positioned my car to start moving. As I moved a bit, I saw this young man who said that he was a student in my department at the part-time program, come out with a cutlass with another person who also wielded a cutlass and then, I drove off with speed and they began chasing us but they could not reach us and we drove away.
“Up till today, I have not seen that young man again who claimed to be my student but I saw him 3 times before we made the journey that would have taken my life.
“It is either he is a genuine student which I doubt or he is an impostor looking for such victims. It was a coincidence that I was his victim.
“He had rehearsal how to catch his victims and ever since, I have stopped looking for an alternative cure for diabetes.
I stick to my doctor and my medication and I have done this more than 2 decades after that incident
