A 70 year old man might have cheated death when
he bounced back to life after spending over 30
hours in a mortuary in Makurdi, the Benue state
capital. Doctors at a private hospital in the town
had on Saturday, August 26, 2015, certified Amos
Otene dead at 4. 30 am and promptly covered him
up and wheeled him into the mortuary, awaiting
instructions from members of the family for
embarment.

As further proof that Otene was dead, the
doctors extracted the requisite body fluid and
other substances from the corpse, for post
mortem examination which was to ultimately
reveal the cause of death.

According to the family, the hospital admitted
Otene on Friday August 25 after he complained of
severe toothache which had persisted for several
days. As the news of Otene’s death spread, family
members and other sympathisers continued to
throng the hospital.

On Sunday, when one of his children, Eche, who
lives in Lafia visited, he was taken to the
mortuary to confirm that his father had indeed
passed on. According to Eche, at about 1.39 pm,
“the morticians at the hospital wheeled out the
trolley containing my father and unveiled the face
for me to see.

It was in this process that the supposedly he
started raising his right hand and all of us fled
towards the reception area of the mortuary. From
a safe distance we watched as my father lifted
himself and sat on the bed and that was about
seven minutes later. One of the attendants
eventually summoned enough courage and
approached my father who fell back on the trolley.”

Eche said that the doctors ordered that the
resurrected man be readmitted in the ward where
some medication was administered and he was
placed on fresh round of drips. He remained in the
ward till Tuesday when the doctors carried out
series of tests and certified Otene fit for
discharge.

Encounter with death

As at Wednesday at the Otene’s Old GRA residence
in Makurdi, well-wishers continued to troupe
there to catch a glimpse of the resurrected man.
Until his retirement in 2012, Otene worked at
the Department of Forestry of the Federal
Ministry of Agriculture in Makurdi. In what may
well be an apparent case of near-death experience,
Otene said that, “what I remember is that I was in
a vehicle and traveled a long distance.

When I got there, there were many people and
there was a lot of celebration and merriment and
the people were happy. But they did not allow me
to stay with them. They said I should go back and
repeat my work.

I am much better now and I thank God for
everything and I also owe many thanks to the
hospital for taking care of me and my family
members who have been worried. I hope they will
continue to be with me until I am completely free
from this stress.”

It’s a miracle

Otene’s wife, Elizabeth, was not aware that her
husband had ‘passed’. Her children did not inform
her because, according to them, she is
hypertensive and they feared that informing her
would have caused additional damage.

According to Elizabeth, “they did not tell me that
my husband died, they only told me after the
resurrection and I think it is a miracle. I ask God
to forgive me for doubting when they told me that
he died and resurrected.

After his resurrection he developed high appetite
for food and he has been demanding for
food. Eche, the son said,”this is God’s miracle. We
glorify God’s name. God is merciful and we can’t
thank Him enough for keeping my father alive.
What if they had embarmed him? They did not
because they were waiting for us. And when I
visited the man came alive. It’s God’s work.”
Faulty death certification

But medical experts say Otene could not have died
in the first place and that the question of
resurrection was out of the question. The only
explanation, according to a Makurdi-based medical
practitioner, Dr. Ameh Edace, is that, “he was in a
long coma. He was in a long coma if he came back
to life before embarment.”

Also reacting, the Medical Director of Rekiya
Memorial Hospital, Kaduna, Dr. Bello Mohammed,
said that, “in the history of medicine, there has
not been any case of anybody coming back to life
after being certified dead.

It is not possible but when you talk of miracle,
that is a different thing altogether because with
miracle, anything can happen.

But if a person is pronounced clinically dead, he
remains dead and there is no way he can come
back to life, certainly, not after 24 hours. For this
case in question, the only medical explanation is
that the patient was in a long coma.

If a doctor had certified the patient dead, then
the competence of that doctor should be
questioned. For sure, there is something wrong
with the death certification.

Hope he has revelation for us.

OP, where is the picture?

After 3 days! The Doctor who certified him clinically dead should be probed.

If na some people now them go begin tell us who de help fire and who de heaven.

If u av ever been where embalmment is done u will never believe such story.. my question is did he wake up after embalmment or was he not embalmed after 30hrs?