Death certificate No. P086/01, issued by the St. Eunice Clinic at 108 Orlu Road, Akwakuma, Oweri, Nigeria on 30 November 2001, states “Rev. Dan Eke was dead on arrival at 23:30. No breathing, no pulse, no heartbeat, eyes dilated and fixed, dead. Transfer to morgue.”
Pastor Daniel Ekechukwu had been so seriously injured in a car accident that two doctors declared him dead. His wife Nneka was convinced that was not the last word and believed that God would revive her husband. Daniel’s corpse was taken to the morgue, where a chemical was injected to prepare it for embalming. The overseer of the morgue was, as he confirmed to The Post Express, awoken by the sound of singing in the morgue, despite the fact that only corpses should have been there. Visibly disturbed, he insisted that the pastor’s corpse be removed.
Nneka took her husband’s corpse to a church in Onitsha, where German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke was speaking. There, according to the report, the corpse suddenly inhaled and sat up, unbeknown to the evangelist, who was preaching in the auditorium. Ekechukwu had been dead for around two days, but on his revival, his body showed no signs of the fatal injuries.
Source: Telegram Revival Report from CFAN, Reinhard Bonnke, Frankfurt, Germany.
[Newspaper article published subsequently in The Post Express, Nigeria.] [Africa, Nigeria, pronounced dead, certified, injection for embalming, singing in morgue, removed body, took to Reinhard Bonnke Conf, dead 2 days, sat up.]