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.

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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.
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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.”
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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.

Benue ppl and mystery

This incident is becoming more and more frequent. We also experienced same issue with my grand mum some years ago

Euthanasia s Doctors beware, for God doesn't like any form of killing