Mr Kalu Chima who is the proprietor of Emeka Mortuary, Okunmi Community, located at the suburbs of Ikom, Central senatorial district, Cross River State, has revealed the weird side of the job and how they go through battles with occultists and members of some secret societies before their corpses were embalmed in his mortuary.

Mr Kalu Chima, whose mortuary is located along Ikom-Calabar highway, confessed to NDV that dead bodies, especially those of occultists and members of secret societies “do give them a tough time while being embalmed because their bodies have been ‘fortified’ with spiritual and occultic powers.

“In such cases, we have to pet and persuade them by talking to them to allow the chemicals to penetrate their bodies, but if they still refuse, we have to employ our own spiritual force and of course, power pass power and we can then embalm them,” he disclosed. According Mr Kalu, he learned the trade in Onitsha General Hospital, Anambra state, and he has gotten an understanding that some dead bodies can be really “powerful” such that they do not allow others to lie close to them and he was always careful when attending to such bodies.

Mr Kalu said: “Some powerful people do not allow other dead bodies to lie close to them, so in the night, they will remove other bodies near them and dump them far from where they are or they would go to an isolated place and lie there – all dead bodies are not thesame, some are very powerful, this is why we knock before we enter.

A Vanguard reporter traveled from Calabar to Okunmi to meet Mr. Chima following some strange reports about corpses in his mortuary established in 2010. A few months after it was established, there was an unsubstantiated story about a man, whose car broke down close to the mortuary late in the night and he decided to search for a place to spend the night, he went to a house that he saw light inside and knocked the door. A security guard reportedly came out and gave him a mat to sleep in a section of the room, the next morning wehn he woke up, he discovered that he slept among corpses and he instantly fainted. Another case was that while conveying a corpse, the mortician occasionally walked behind the ambulance, while the corpse drives the van and the bizarre-There are other weird stories but he said that some are true and that the others are just mere tales.

Mr Kalu said: “The corpses may be dead, but they still possess some spiritual powers to protect themselves. We have about 100 corpses right now and 18 abandoned ones, but we keep the place open, both day and night, without any security and anybody, who attempts to do anything funny by going there to steal or do anything has himself to blame”. He, however, described as false claims that some people sell parts of dead people or have s*xual intercourse with them.

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