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Despite the information making the rounds that there is no cure for HIV AIDS patients, one man says he has what it takes to cure the dreaded disease.
Despite the information making the rounds that there is no cure for HIV AIDS patients, one man says he has what it takes to cure the dreaded disease.
Speaking to our reporter at his palace in Eleme, His Royal Majesty, Edidem Professor Peter Ekpe said that fear and poverty are responsible for the death rate of people living with HIV/AIDS that there is no cure for the disease.
Prof Ekpe stated that compare to the Western world where they have health care delivery, Nigeria there has nothing to write home about, saying that the problem should be tackled first and the solution will eventually come because it is a collective effort.
"Let us all agree that there is no cure for AIDS and some day after everybody is dead in the grave, then, there will be cure for the disease. Let government test me and let me prove to them that I have medicine to the disease. It only requires me to use my herbs and roots and the disease will be gone", he said.
The Monarch who is also the Chief Executive of Inapow Trado-Medical clinic urged government to encourage people on the usefulness of herbs/roots because according to him, it was for our own survival and it was a place where the active principle resides in any plant material.
On the agitation of the South-South delegates at the on-going confab in Abuja for 25% derivation of their resources, the professor Emeritus opined that the 25% is too small compared to the states that produced the wealth of the country.
Hear him: "I want to encourage any one from the South-South to be up and doing in his campaign, popularity and in his own image. They should strive for excellence and power and it will be a welcome thing and we should continue to ask for it until it is given to us", he said.
Prof Ekpe stated that time has come for youths to be fully engaged to avoid restiveness. He warned politicians not to be using youths to foment trouble but to ensure that they create programmes where youths would be gainfully employed.
On the impeachment saga against the Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State, he urged the Akwa Ibom State government to amicably resolve the matter without jeopardy.
He pleaded with politicians not to play politics with bitterness because according to him, it is a material thing and impeachment does not tell well on a personality of a person.
HRM advised people with HIV/AIDS to go for alternative treatment and pleaded with government not to be telling lies that there is no cure for the disease.