Bullets, Hemp Found In Lunatic’s Abode

Officials of the Department of Rehabilitation Centre, Edo State Ministry of Women Affairs and those of the state Traditional Medicine were shocked when, on Tuesday, they discovered a young man who claimed to be a mad man but had in his possession bullets and marijuana.

P.M.NEWS gathered that the officials were on their routine raid of lunatics on the streets of Benin City, the state capital when they got to Gabriel Igbinedion Road, GRA where they met a young destitute was dressed in a tattered clothes sitting by the road side.

As they approached the man who was cooking and smoking weeds suspected to be marijuana, the officials were surprised that the man put up a fierce resistance. In a lightning speed, he ran away to ensure the captors could not seize him.

However, the officials, including Dr. Olorunfemi Okeih, the director of the rehabilitation centre and Dr. Mrs. Omosede of the Traditional Healing Homes, went back to the mad man’s abode and discover more startling revelations.

First, they discovered four live cartridges, marijuana, bottled water, delicious foods like pounded yam with soup and assorted meat and other foods like rice and beans, fried plantain and fried fish.

The Public Relations Officer, PRO, to the Women Affairs Ministry, Mr. Pius Ede confirmed the story and added that a few days earlier, two young men on a bike visited the mad and exchanged pleasantries with him before they collected some materials from him and sped off on their bike.

Since the visit of the officials, the mad man has become agitated and runs away from anyone approaching his abode.

When P.M.NEWS asked for his name, he merely replied ‘GKG Edwards.’

He put his age at 24.

Dr. Okeih told our correspondent that his team had reported the incident to the police. But the Edo State Police Command Public Relations Officer, PPRO, ASP Peter Ogboi was out of the state when P.M.NEWS contacted his office for comment.

—Yomi Obaditan/    Benin City