Almost everything about the story is related to the
Word, the Holy Bible. It is a story involving a pastor’s
mother-in-law, told by a pastor and corroborated by
pastors and Born-Again Christians. In Akure, Ondo
State, a state where intriguing mysteries would never
cease to happen, a miracle similar to the Lazarus experience unfolded recently. A 67-year old mother of three resurrected 12 days
after being pronounced clinically dead! Stranger than
fiction you might say. But this is the story of Mama
Victoria Gbemisola Babatunde (née Bolarinwa) who
was certified dead on January 7, this year but is now
back to life, hale and hearty. She would have been buried almost immediately she was certified dead...
But something delayed the burial: The nationwide
strike against the removal of fuel subsidy made it
impossible for the children to gather to arrange her
burial. A date was eventually fixed and the children were on
their way for the burial when they learnt that she had
resurrected! The moving story was told to Vanguard
by her son-in-law, Pastor Andrew Ozoemena, who
had earlier, last Sunday, given a testimony at the Living
Faith Church, Jengre Road, Jos, where Mama, as she is popularly called, used to fellowship before she
relocated to Ondo State following the persistent crisis
in Jos. Members of the Elders Council of the church to which
Mrs. Babatunde belonged had actually contributed
some money in support of her burial when they heard
of her demise only to be told later that she was back
to life. Many, like Thomas in the Bible, doubted the
story until they learnt of her arrival in Jos. The home of the Ozoemenas, located around British American
Junction, Jos, had since her return, become a centre of
attraction as many go there to catch a glimpse of the
‘resurrected’ woman. Pastor Ozoemena, a missionary, married to Abimbola,
Mrs Babatunde’s first daughter, narrated the story to
Vanguard in what he tagged a “Millennium
Testimony”. Excerpts: “...Meanwhile, we were also told
that the corpse of Mama was rejected at the hospital in
Akure because of the strike, so the only available option was to invite mortuary attendants to embalm
her at home. We kept on praying and believing God
for the strike to be called off soonest to enable us
travel for her burial. With a death certificate already
issued, we began to break the news of her death to
our friends, relations and others close to us and many visited or sent their condolence messages. I told my wife to inform her mother’s church members
and the pastor in Living Faith Church about the death
of her mother and she eventually did on 18 January,
2012 during the church’s midweek service. At the end
of the meeting, the elders of the church even gave my
wife some money in support of the burial. “Contrary to our expectation, the nationwide strike lasted for more
than a week thereby further delaying our journey to
make the burial arrangements, but little did we realize
that God was using it to achieve a purpose. This is
because, if not for the strike, she would have been
buried. We had sent money for necessary burial
arrangements to be made but it was impossible to go
ahead with the burial since all Mama’s three children
were based outside Ondo State and it would have
been against Yoruba tradition to bury her in their
absence. Pressure was mounted on my wife, being the first child, to find a way of getting to Ondo for the
burial to go on but all efforts to travel failed. “Since the
corpse was at home and not in the mortuary, as I
earlier explained, the family had to employ the
services of mortuary personnel who visited to
administer a vaccine called clurophune on daily basis to preserve the body from decaying. We did not realize that God was already doing a
miracle, but on the fifth day after her demise, my
brother in-law called to inform us that her body had
begun to grow warm. Based on this development, we
intensified prayers and urged God to give us what we
said would be a testimony of the millennium. “In a dramatic turn of events, Mama sneezed and opened
her eyes on the ninth day of her death, as the
mortuary attendant was busy taking care of her body. The startled mortuary attendant ran out of the room
and called on family members and those around to
come and witness what she saw. After sneezing and
opening her eyes, she did not utter any word for three
days, making people unsure of her actual state. Three
days after this incident, that is, on 20 January, the 12th day of her being pronounced dead, she spoke to her
younger brother (Pastor Amos) and even drank water
and ate some food. This development was kept away from us because
the mortuary attendant was said to have advised
against breaking the news in view of similar past
experiences when people came back to life
momentarily after days of being pronounced dead
only to be found dead later. Since the burial date had already been fixed for Saturday, 21 January, my wife
took off for Akure on Friday the 20th while I was to
travel by night bus that same night to join her the next
morning. She eventually arrived in Akure at about
10p.m. that day only to be told that her mother had
just resurrected. Naturally, she was shocked and did not believe it initially until the whole thing was
explained to her. “After she recovered a little and regained her
memory, Mama told her children that she would like to
come to Jos to share her testimony and the message
which the Lord gave her for the body of Christ. Right
now, she is staying with me and my family in Jos. Since
her arrival, people come to my house on daily basis to hear her testimony. “Three days after her arrival in Jos,
my wife and I took her to the Jos University Teaching
Hospital (JUTH) for medical examinations and
necessary treatments. We were also privileged that
one of our neighbors, Evangelist Femi Alu, linked us
with his friend, Evangelist/Doctor Ezekiel, a Sri Lankan who works in JUTH. When he heard the testimony of my mother-in-law, he
was astonished seeing the same old woman on her
feet. “He and other doctors said it was very rare to see
someone who was dead for many days come back to
life with all the parts of the body still functioning
normally. They said that some people who died and eventually came back to life often experienced
malfunctioning of parts of their body. Some of them
became blind, deaf or became paralyzed, but my
mother-in-law’s case was exceptionally different. With this testimony, some of the doctor’s colleagues
got born again, that very day at the hospital. The
doctors carried out some tests on her and the results
showed that she was formally dead. Even the acid
called clurophune that was injected into her body for
the preservation of her corpse from decaying was also indicated on the results.” MRS BABATUNDE’S
TESTIMONY “I went to heaven and I saw Jesus seated
at the right hand of God. Jesus took me to hell and I
saw those who had been in hell for more than a
thousand years and they were being tormented day
and night. I also saw the angels worshipping and singing round
the clock in heaven and the gates and the entire
streets of heaven were pure gold. “Thereafter, Jesus
now told me to go back to the world and accomplish
my purpose on earth and to inform other Christians
about what I saw.” Commenting on Mama’s testimony, Pastor Ozoemena said: “If a woman (widow), aged 67,
still has some purpose to accomplish, I believe this is a
wake-up call for we the younger generation and the
entire body of Christ in the world.

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