P-Square Cries “Before Our Mum Died, She Couldn’t Recognise Us”

• Posted on July 18, 2012July 18, 2012
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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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.

Credit: Linda Ikeji’s Blog