A native of Umutogwama Umuejidi village in Oguta Local Government area of Imo state Ijeoma Innocent Chimezie has lamented how his kindred persecuted him for refusing to inherit the position of his father as the native ‘doctor’.
Speaking in a chat with Blueprint, Chimezie said his kindred traced him to Lagos where he was seeking refuge after the persecution became too much for him to bear.
“First of all my Father has three wives and I’m the first son of the family among the three wives with two sisters. My father has been a strong native doctor that served as the strong leader’s chairman of the village herbalist association.
“After my fathers’ death all those leaders working under my father’s leadership started looking for me as the first son to come and succeed my father in the native doctor herbalist throne.
“Unfortunately right from my childhood I have been a strong Christian and believer in Jesus Christ. As soon as the herbalist group discovered that I believed strongly in God and preach about Jesus Christ, they started looking for a way to take my life since they could not force me to assume the throne of my father as native doctor.
“As they became more aggressive, they started searching for me all over the Oguta town and my village Umutogwama Umuejidi.
“Since my life was in danger, I ran away from the village and came to Lagos without allowing my mother know about my movements so that they could not trace me. From here I ran to my relation at No 13 Akoruntayo street at Fadeyi, Mushin.
“Unfortunately they got information that I am in Lagos and they traced me there. That was how I fled to Libya,” he said.
