Ekenna made this disclosure while fielding questions recently in Emene Enugu state. He wondered why Nigerians prefer going abroad for treatment of cancers and other life-threatening ailments like Kidney diseases, heart diseases, and diabetes among others, while the cures through natural remedies are readily available even as he said that Nigeria stands to make billions of naira as people from other parts of the world will come for treatment. Speaking on the synthetic drugs to treat such diseases he said “Some of these chronic and intractable diseases do not respond well to synthetic drugs, that informed my quest for something that would do a lot for us.
” He went further to posit that his organization, Ekenna Natures Limited, was committed to understanding and finding cures for different diseases ravaging the world today through natural remedies and has been able to achieve incredible results in providing cures for globally acclaimed intractable diseases. Dr. Ekenna, a University of Nigeria Nsukka trained pharmacist insisted that he approached diseases through natural means, employing the use of plants, which according to him, have been able to produce natural drugs in the forms of capsules and pills that combat ailments like cancer, kidney failure and heart diseases.
He disclosed that those plants were thoroughly studied and based on their phytochemical constituents, were used for the drug formulations. According to Ekenna, “These are diseases when people have them, the.
