MYSTERIOUS HEALING LAKE IN ENUGU ATTRACTS THOUSANDS

Source: Sunday Pilot
A new thing is happening at Nachi community in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu state in Nigeria.

The serene community which is located between Udi town market station, ‘Nkwoagu’ and Oji River Town, along the old Enugu, Onitsha road, has turned into a pilgrimage centre.

Hundreds of people daily throng the place, visiting and moving into the hinterland of the community on motorbikes to either fetch water for domestic use or take a spiritual bath from an inland water pool that mysteriously surfaced in the forest of the community about three weeks ago.

The news of the mysterious pool with healing power has continued to spread like wild fire across various cities and towns of the country.

The resultant effect is that the community is witnessing increasing influx of visitors to the pool on daily basis.

A young man, who gave his name as Mr. Chuka Ani, told Sunday Pilot that he came all the way from Abuja to witness and see for himself.
As part of his testimony, Ani told this paper that immediately he arrived at the pool, he first of all filled his plastic container with the water, drank from it before jumping into the pool to swim. According to him, “I meditated and prayed within myself while swimming, then after a while, I had a strong urge to urinate, which I perfectly did at the bank of the pool.

Surprisingly, he witnessed that the urine he had passed out was filled with impurities. Thereafter performing that irresistible call of nature, Ani said he jumped back into the pool to swim again. After a while, he had another urge to urinate, he came out to the pool’s bank to pass it out. To his amazement, the urine that came out this time around was as pure as purified water itself.

Continuing Chuka Ani said, in his faith that he was very optimistic that he has received miraculous healing.

The Abuja based business man, however, said he will continue to spread the good news to all and sundry about the powers of the stream.
The personal and life experience of Mr. Ani, is just one out of the hundreds of stories being spread as testimonies from those who have visited the mysterious miracle pool at Nachi, in Udi local government area of Enugu state, which is why it has become a Mecca of sort.
It is established that even though the pool is located in a thick forest far from the communities’ settlement, it never existed in a day before it was discovered.

Sunday Pilot checks revealed that some Fulani herds’ men had passed on the dry land where the pool is currently located to graze their cattle without its presence but were apparently shocked to find on their way back, the fast, fresh pool of water covering a vast portion of a hitherto dry land of the narrow path they had passed through.

While what they experienced was startling, the herdsmen it was learnt meandered through the thick forest back to into the Nachi communities settlement [residential area] to report this miracle to the villagers who thereafter rushed to the scene to see for themselves.
This paper gathered nonetheless that some elderly men in the community have confessed that the mysterious river used to appear over intervals of two to three decades and vanish after about seven days, revealing that it last appeared in 1972, but the mystery of its present coming is that it has attracted more strangers than ever compared in times past.

Probably, the advanced information network that has reduced the entire world to a global village facilitated that. More so, the claims and testimonies of the spiritual and healing power it possesses.

However speaking to Sunday Pilot, the traditional ruler of Nachi community, Igwe Igwe Onuigbo Obi II, corroborated the story that the mysterious pool had surfaced in times past, even though some elders and traditionalists say that the lake was sacred in previous times where evil men and women in menstrual period do not dare to go.

But with the present resurfacing of the pool, it was observed that there are no rules of engagement or guiding instructions to checkmate those who visit and who should not dare the lake or pool of water as the area has become a free for all.

However, notwithstanding, prayers, meditations with hope and faith of receiving a miracle, are the key motives on the minds of the visitors who have continued to troop to the pool.

Visitors curiously with faith, undresses and jump into the water. Then meditates in prayer as long as he or she desires, thereafter comes out of the pool, goes beside the pool bank to dig a deep hole on the sandy surface, gradually the water which miraculously will be clean will accumulate within the hole, then with a cup the visitor fills his or her container, and with faith goes home with his can of healing water, having taken a spiritual birth.

Sunday Pilot also gathered that only the first visitors on the first day and second days got fresh and clean drinking water directly from the pool. But as it is with the influx of people, the miracle water has lost its freshness, resulting in most pilgrims digging shallow holes beside its bank, to fetch drinking water for the desired miracle.
While this is ongoing commercial activities has gradually sprang up within the vicinity of the pool and beyond.

From the Enugu, Onitsha area, at ‘Agbalaenyi area of Nachi, an emergence bus stop has sprang up.

Commercial buses from Enugu, AWKA/Onitsha route drop and pick pilgrims who are visiting the miracle pool. From that point, they are conveyed by commercial motorcyclists into the forest within Nachi hinterland, the location of the at a motor bike cost initially of N150 per a ride now N300 per ride.

The Agbalaenyi axis of Nachi community which is beside the Enugu, Onitsha road tarmac in the past two weeks are jam-packed with luxurious cars of rich men and women who are also trooping to the miracle pool for the simple reason that the only road leading to the lake is un -tarred and narrow, except with the aid of a motorcycle.
Interestingly, tongues are wagging and questions are being asked about how long the miracle pool can survive.

With the first pilgrims saying the level of water rose above their necks, at an estimated four feet above sea level, and giving fear that it will sooner dry up.

However, it is a wonderful and mysterious thing to note that despite the estimated thousands of litres of water drawn, daily, the pool has lasted for three weeks against the proposition by the community elders that it will stay for only a week, in the same manner it appeared in 1972.