Mr Otene woke up after spending over 30 hours in a mortuary after doctors at the private hospital had extracted the requisite body fluid and other substances from the corpse for post-mortem examination. According to family members, the hospital had admitted Mr Otene on Friday August 25 after he complained of severe toothache which had persisted for several days.
He was later certified as dead and family members and other sympathisers thronged to the hospital to pay their respects. Last 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.
However, while he was being wheeled out of the mortuary on a trolley, he raised his right hand, forcing everyone present to flee. Doctors then ordered that the resurrected man be readmitted in the ward where some medication was administered and he was placed on fresh round of drips.
Etche said: "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.”
Until his retirement in 2012, Mr Otene worked at the Department of Forestry of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture in Makurdi. Dr Bello Mohammed, the medical director of Rekiya Memorial Hospital, Kaduna, said that in the history of medicine, there has not been any case of anybody coming back to life after being certified dead.
Mr Otene added: "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.”
Apparently, after his resurrection Mr Otene developed a high appetite for food and he has been demanding food ever since. However, medical experts say Mr Otene could not have died in the first place and that the question of resurrection was out of the question.
Makurdi medical practitioner Dr Ameh Edace, said: “He was in a long coma if he came back to life before embalmment. 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 because there is something wrong with the death certification."
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