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.
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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