A dead man who walked out of his casket days after he gave up the ghost has created mixed reactions.
The “resurrection” of a local doctor at the site of his burial two days after he was declared dead shocked the Gidan Angalu community in Toto Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, last Tuesday. He was declared a Dead Man
Godwin Ugeelu Amadu, age 59, had been declared dead by medical professionals at a private hospital at around 6 am on September 5, 2022, after which he was covered and wheeled into the mortuary while medical professionals and family members awaited the arrival of his eldest son, Mr. Jacob Amadu, who was based in Abuja. Despite having been declared dead by physicians, Godwin Ugeelu Amadu awoke two days later.
Plans were allegedly made for the deceased native doctor’s funeral two days later because he allegedly gave his children instructions that he must be buried no later than three days in the hospital before burial and must not be embalmed with Formaline.
However, when preparations were being made to carry Amadu’s body to the cemetery, the native doctor rose from the casket he was confined in, shocking Amadu’s children, relatives, and sympathizers to the point where they fled in different directions. Amadu’s “resurrection” two days after his “death” made him an instant celebrity as onlookers flocked to the scene to verify what had taken place.
Before his illness and final “death” on September 5, Amadu, who claimed to have given up his work as a native doctor to become an evangelist, recalled that he had been in good health and had thoroughly attended to patients who had traveled great distances to see him.
But sometime in July, he began to feel pains in his chest and legs. He said his legs were swollen and he tried treating himself as a native doctor but there appeared to be no improvement, prompting his two eldest children based in Abuja and one of his daughters based in Lafia to rush him to the Federal Medical Centre in Keffi.
He spent two weeks at the hospital in Keffi before being released and given the all-clear. But a week after arriving home, he started experiencing excruciating chest pain. He repeatedly warned them not to take him back to the hospital and not to keep his body for more than two or three days before burial. His children had returned to their jobs. But as his condition worsened, his children disobeyed him and took him back to a neighboring private hospital where he could receive initial care before being taken to the Federal Medical Centre in Keffi where he had previously received treatment. Before they believed he was dead, medics there fought to save his life.
