What Peter
Okoye told an Encomium magazine reporter:
She has been diabetic for years, and when it started
many months back, we got good doctors to treat her in Jos. But when we couldn't
get good result, we brought her to Lagos. We took her to St Nicholas Hospital
and everybody who went to see her in the hospital cried. She had lost a lot of
weight and couldn't recognise us. She called me Jude. I can never forget that
day.
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She went through a lot and gradually she got stabilized
thereafter she was moved to the intensive care unit (ICU) and she spent two to
three weeks there. So we thought of moving her to South Africa, India or the US
for proper check up. We eventually took her to India about four weeks ago and we
talked every one hour. The Indian doctors made sure to clean everywhere before
the surgery, and the operation was successful. Our sisters who were with her
confirmed this to us and we were very happy to hear the good news. She was okay
before the eventual death and for a day one of my sisters was unconscious
because she couldn't believe it.
We wanted to travel to India the
following day she died (Thursday July 12) but we changed our plans. Her body
arrived Lagos on Sunday July 15th. No concrete arrangement yet on the
burial.
Mrs Josephine Okoye was in her early 60s and was a pastor
living in Jos. She's survived by her husband, 7 children, and 4 grandchildren.
May her soul continue to rest in perfect peace, amen.
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