Dead Man Wakes Up In Kano
Morgue After 3 Days – says
Heaven's Full of SNOW
49-year-old Mr Kayode Sotunde, a
retired Nigerian soldier has narrated
his death experience after he woke
from the dead at a Kano mortuary in
April.
The ex-military man who died en-route
Kano on the 11th of April, 2013 is a
living witness that heaven and hell is
real.
On the fateful day of his death, the
passenger bus taking him and others
to Kano from Gboko crashed on the
road. All the 17 passengers on the bus
died on the spot.
Sotunde who is yet to gain his health
back said he woke up 3 days after his
death at Ahmadu Bello University
Hospital morgue in Kano where his
corpse and that of others were
deposited for families to claim them
for burial.
Mr Sotunde said his corpse was being
prepared for burial when he woke up
gistdoctor.com learnt.
The former military man narrated his
death experience to Sunday Sun in
Abeokuta, Ogun State yesterday.
Interview excerpts below ;
Journey from Gboko to mortuary
On that fateful day, that was April 11,
2013, I was travelling from Gboko to
Kano to see my younger brother, Jide
Sotunde, a soldier serving in Kano. We
had agreed on the journey which we
had thought would afford us to
discuss important issues, including the
possibilities of getting another job that
would not be too far from where I had
my wife.
I retired from the Nigerian Army,
(Supply and Transport), Apapa Lagos
where I served for 30 years, during
which I also participated in many
peace keeping force assignments
outside Nigeria.
After retirement, I got a job as a
security guard at the Dangote Cement,
Gboko, Benue State from where I also
resigned because of the distance of
my workplace and where my family
was based in Osogbo.
The ill-fated vehicle was an 18-seater
passenger bus, which I boarded in
Gboko en-route Kano. We were barely
two hours into the journey when a
passenger asked us to pray. Since it
was a normal thing for a passenger to
offer to pray on such a long journey, I
did not heed his call. I was just playing
with my mobile phone set.
Aside from that, I didn't believe in the
prayer since I didn't know anything
about Jesus Christ. I was a freethinker
who neither went to church nor
worshipped any idol. We were making
progress on the journey when
suddenly there was a bang. That was
all I could recollect about the journey
until I woke up three days after in the
mortuary of the Ahmadu Bello
University Teaching Hospital, Kano
where I was told that I died in an
accident and my corpse along with
other 17 passengers were deposited
there.
Even though the hospital authorities
told me that I was in their morgue for
three days as a dead man, I actually
spent more days there before I could
regain my senses.
I was to be buried in Kano
I was told that before I returned from
the land of the dead, my family had
instructed my younger brother who I
was visiting in Kano before the
accident to bury me in Kano since they
could not afford the N150,000, which
was said to have been requested by
transporters to take my corpse from
Kano to Abeokuta. My elder sister,
Moradeke Sotunde played a prominent
role in this regard.
I was also told that it was at the point
that my corpse was being prepared for
interment that suddenly I returned to
the land of the living after my corpse
was taken out of the mortuary for
prayers by Islamic clerics who were
said to have sprinkled water on my
corpse preparatory to my burial. I was
also told that my hair was also shaved
as demanded by the clerics.
I was told that my corpse was taken
out of the mortuary after they had dug
my grave and organised some clerics
to offer the funeral prayers.
They wanted to bury me in Kano
because my family members couldn't
afford N150,000 demanded for
carrying my corpse to Abeokuta for
burial. The initial plan was to move my
corpse back home to Abeokuta, where
a grave had been dug but for the
transportation cost.
Kayode Sotunde Narrates Death
Experience
My brother, truly, there is life after
death. I can also tell you that there is a
living God. You may not believe me,
but I am a living witness to this. I may
not be able to describe Heaven or Hell,
but there is another life after this one
that we are living.
This place I am talking about is full of
snow. I may not have been to America,
but I have heard about snow. Where
we were was full of snow, with plenty
of something that I can describe as
alum stones; whitish in colour with
something I can describe as granite in
this physical world. In spite of the
terrible cold, there was no day that we
felt cold and it was never harmful to
us.
All of us were there without knowing
whether we are male or female. We
couldn't see our eyes, mouth and nose.
We had no leg; we had no arm, but we
floated in the air without our bodies
touching the ground. We were flying
around what I will describe as another
planet.
On the third day of my arrival on the
strange planet, they gave me a
message that we were expecting one
big prophet.
After the message was delivered, they
nominated ushers among us to
welcome the prophet. And seconds
later, people started trooping in,
jubilating as if a goal was just scored in
a football match.
On that planet, there were many stars
which were not stable in one place, like
we have in the sky in this world. I
noticed that on a daily basis, people
kept on increasing, even though we
don't know from where they came.
I was in this mood until they (I don't
know them) told me that I should go
back home to work for the Lord.
According to them, there were many
people in the world who are not only
in bondage, but are also afflicted with
human pains. They also instructed that
I should work for the Lord and heel
people. I was even arguing, putting up
some resistance that I could not do it.
This was the condition I found myself
until I opened my eyes and saw Jide,
my younger brother in this part of the
world again.
In God's vineyard
Since the Lord has directed me to work
for Him, I will surely do so because 'to
be forewarned, is to be forearmed.' It
was because of this that I went to do
my thanksgiving service at the
Mountain of Fire and Miracle, in Lagos
with the General Overseer, Pastor
Olukoya.
The Lord has started performing
miracles in other people's lives through
me. I don't want to sound boastful, but
God has started using me. I do pray for
people now and they usually return to
tell me that their problems have been
solved. It is the Lord's doing.
I have already prayed for a woman
who has married been for 14 years
without a child that God will give her
the fruit of the womb. The person who
lives in Ikorodu spoke to me through
the telephone and I believe Lord will
answer her prayers and request. I
have accepted to work in God's
vineyard till I return to Him.
Day I returned to Abeokuta
I caused a stir in this area when I
returned alive to Abeokuta because
people including my family members,
except my brother who was with me
when I rose from the dead, did not
know I had risen from the dead.
On arrival in Abeokuta, we played
pranks on my people as they did not
know that I was returning to home
alive that day.
When we got nearer home, the person
that accompanied me decided to call
Kemi, my mother's last born that we
were already in Abeokuta. When my
sister saw me, she fainted and was
later revived. She was shivering when
she woke up.
We later told her to return home to tell
others that I had risen from the dead.
On my way, I saw people mourning
me, wearing black attire.
I trekked a distance of about 800
metres to my father's house. There, a
grave had also been dug beside my
late father's before the family decided
to bury my corpse in Kano. I waved as
people were expressing shock and
disbelief at seeing me alive. When I
attempted to move closer to a woman
in her shop, she ran away, thinking I
was a ghost and pleading that she had
no hands in my death. My sister,
Moradeke who lives in Lagos was also
wearing a black attire, mourning along
with others until I returned home.
I returned to Abeokuta on the very day
I was to be buried. I even met many of
the mourners, wearing black (including
my sisters) who had gathered in my
father's house here, (Sabo Abeokuta).
There was also a particular woman
who threw away the beans meal she
was eating and ran away from her
shop when she sighted me.
I kept on saying that I was not dead,
but she found it difficult to believe me.
Health challenges
Although I have returned from the land
of the dead, I have not fully regained
my health as I am talking to you. I have
both chest and body pains. In fact,
medically speaking, I am not alright. I
usually run strange temperature. That
was why I visited the Federal Medical
Centre, Idi Aba for medical treatment. I
vomit blood each time I cough. I can't
engage in any hard labour.
Besides, a lot of strange things have
started happening to me. Sometimes, I
feel as if I am still in the mortuary. I
will be seeing a lot of heads. My sight is
not normal, it sometimes fails me. I
have also started giving messages to
people about things that they don't
know about their family.