OKUNMI- THE proprietor of Emeka
Mortuary, Okunmi Community, located at the
suburbs of Ikom, Central senatorial district,
Cross River State, Mr. Kalu Ben Chima,
popularly called Emeka Ambulance, has
revealed the spiritual combats morticians,
now and again, go through with occultists
and members of some secret societies
before their corpses were embalmed in his
mortuary.
•Mr Kalu Chima & •Emeka mortuary
The Arochukwu-born mortician, 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 us trouble
while being embalmed because their bodies
have been ‘fortified’ by the devil or some
spiritual forces.”
Power pass power
“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 remain stubborn, we have to employ our
own spiritual force and of course, power
pass power and we can then embalm them,”
he disclosed.
According to him, he learned the trade in
Onitsha General Hospital, Anambra state, and
had come to know that some dead bodies
were so “powerful” such that they do not
allow others to lie close to them and he was
always careful when attending to such
bodies.
Some corpses don’t allow others to lie near
them
His words: “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 the same, which is why we knock before
we enter there.”
Mind-boggling tales
Our 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 seek for
place to spend the night, and knocked on the
door of a house he saw light burning close
by.
A security guard reportedly came out and
gave him a mat to sleep in a section of the
room, only for him to wake up the next
morning and discovered that he slept among
corpses and he instantly passed out.
Another case was that while conveying a
corpse, the mortician occasionally walked
behind the ambulance, while the corpse
drives the van and the bizarre- that he sells
body parts of dead people and so on.
Chima confirmed some creepy stories and
described others as hearsay. On the man
who allegedly slept in the mortuary with
corpses, he said it was not true and he does
not keep security guards in the mortuary.
Corpses still have spiritual powers
His words: “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 do
have sex with them.
Sex with dead, a deadly affair
Chima asserted: “Do not think that
because she is lying down there, she is
finished and you can go and have sex with
her. You will die also in a matter of hours or
days and how can someone sell body parts
of a corpse or water used in washing a
corpse, such water is poisonous. People die
from different ailments such as HIV/AIDS,
and water used in washing their bodies is
poisonous and any person who uses it will
either die or contact sickness.”
On the report that he has rented crowd of
women, who engage in bogus weeping when
a person dies, he said the women were part
of a specialized funeral services he offers.
Some people hire mourners before their
death
He explained: “Some people do not have
people to cry for them when they die, so
they will arrange with us while they are alive
to get some women to cry during their burial
and also, some people because they are
polygamist would arrange with us to
organize the casket, grave, and mortuary
services so that when they die, there will be
no struggle among family members on who
to do what and so on.”
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