By Emeka Mamah

ENUGU– The police in Enugu State have intensified manhunt for a herbalist who allegedly treated a wounded robbery suspect in his herbal clinic.

A statement entitled, “Enugu herbalist on the run over treatment of robbery suspect,” by the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Superintendent Ebere Amaraizu said that the herbalist treated the robbery suspect in his clinic at Orba in Udenu Local Government Area of the state.

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Amaraizu’s statement read, “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.”