Concerns when the residents of Kano drink, bathing in muddy water is believed to have a trace of the Prophet Muhammad (video)

Nigerians have expressed concern over the incident that occurred on Monday where hundreds of people in the state canoeing in pairs into muddy water puddles for bathing and drinking in it after the local population claimed the pool gave birth to the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad and had the ability to cure all types of diseases.

According to the report, the residents were told about the “footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad” bravely written on the pool land located in Hotoron Arwa, a suburbs on the outskirts of Kano, and in response, residents rushed to the pond for drinking and bathing in dirty water.

Residents who spoke with reporters who visited the scene, said the pool had become a daily pilgrimage, attracting people from afar and close, many of them suffered from strange diseases and believed that water holds a magical healing power.

In a video captured at the scene of the “Miracle Pool”, Men, Women, and Children are Seen Struggling for Access to the Muddy Pool of Water While Some Are Scooping the Dirty Water Into Plastic Bottles, While Others Drink It With Cupped Hands, and Many More Pour It Heads In Ritualistic BATHES, just as others are like rolling in the water, with some practice and prostrating and rubbing the water on different parts of their bodies.

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A local resident who spoke with a journalist said:
“People with strange diseases are also troops to the location to bathe in water. Villagers come from all directions, both for drinking water, collecting it in plastic bottles, or bathing in it. They believe it is healed.”

A journalist who captured a chaotic scene saying:

“Water, which is believed by local residents as a sacred, seems to seep from the signs that are interpreted by some people as footprints of the Prophet Muhammad.

“There is no control. The whole family is now moving to this place. Some bring their sick relatives here, hoping for miracles,” he said.

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