The residents of
Kubwa, a community on the outskirts of Abuja, got the shock of their
lives when an unusual incident involving a businessman occurred about
two weeks ago.
The businessman, Edward Asuelimen, had woken up in the morning of July 16 with
severe pain in
his stomach.
“I woke up a few minutes after 5 am. In
less than two hours, I had visited the toilet four times. Then I felt
excruciating pain in my stomach. It got to a point where I could hardly
prepare my children for school,” Asuelimen recounts.
Even his wife was very worried. But he managed to pull himself together and left their home with the children.
Halfway to the children’s school, the pain became unbearable and he decided to get some drugs from a store on the way.
Yet, a few minutes later, Asuelimen barely managed to walk out of the store by gripping the walls for support.
“I prayed hard to get back home. Anybody
who saw me at that point wouldn’t have believed that there was
something wrong with me,” he says.
He kept praying and fighting the pain
raging in his stomach until he got home. He was so weak that he could
not step out of his car.
Asuelimen’s wife was alarmed at his
condition. She suggested that he should seek medical attention in a
hospital after he gasped and said, “Help me quickly, I can’t breathe.”
The businessman had no choice other than
to listen to his wife. Eventually, he was admitted at Unity Clinic and
Maternity Home, which was nearby.
At intervals, his panic-stricken wife called out his name just to be sure that he was still alive.
“I had never experienced that kind of
pain before. I was merely hanging on with all my strength and faith in
God. At the hospital, the medical director and his staff were already
having their morning devotion.
“When my wife called the doctor and he
helped me to come out of my car, the only thing I could say was, ‘my
tommy, my tummy’ I was given an injection and somebody stayed with me,
all the while praying as the rest continued the morning devotion.
“The Holy Spirit pushed me to speaking in tongues at that point. Not long afterwards, I felt a strong urge to vomit and I did.”
Asuelimen vomited two live lizards in
the hospital. The incident however caused consternation among members of
the staff of the hospital and other patients present.
“When my wife tried to get something to
clean my mouth and pack it, I saw a lizard crawling out from the vomit
on the ground. The nurse that attended to me saw another one and wanted
to kill it,” he says.
When he saw the lizards, the first
thought that struck him was that he had been poisoned. But the pain
ceased after he vomited the reptiles. The doctor told him that he had
just received divine healing.
“I got well almost instantly. Even I
joined the hospital staff in burning the lizards. I went home had my
bath and continued the day’s business as if nothing had happened to me,”
he says.
The news of the event spread like
wildfire. Soon Asuelimen started receiving phone calls from his friends,
relatives, neighbours and associates. They congratulated him for
surviving a close shave with death.
Eventually, the incident became the talk
among the residents of Kubwa. Everybody seemed to be mystified and for
some time, they discussed the incident in hushed tones.
The lizards are sstill the subject of
debate in the community and the residents are torn between accepting the
mystery and waving it aside, since they are convinced that it cannot be
proved scientifically.
But Asuelimen says, “I am not a medical
doctor, and I know that it cannot be proved scientifically. I know that
faith is older and stronger than science. The faith we are talking
about is God himself. God is the creator of the universe, so invention
and science itself is dependent on God.
“Some things are real and beyond proof.
We don’t have to subject God’s miracle and existence to scrutiny. It
does not make sense because I know there are many things that God can
do, which science cannot prove. I am talking about divine healing and
miracles in particular. The fact that science cannot prove it does not
mean they are not real.”
The Medical Director of Unity Clinic and
Maternity, Dr. Stephen Nwaedozie, confirmed the incident. He says,
“When I got to the car, I saw Edward writhing in pain. I brought him out
of the vehicle and attended to him. We started praying for him. Not
long afterwards, my nurses told me that he had vomited lizards.
“I personally burnt the lizards and
poured anointing oil on them and buried the carcasses. As soon as we did
that, the man recovered from the stomach pain. He is a child of God and
with faith he told them to bring him to my hospital and when he came
here, God delivered him. So we praise God.”
Nwaedozie admitted that there was no way
science could explain the appearance of the lizards in Asuelimen’s
vomit. “If I was not there and it didn’t happen right before me, I won’t
believe. So that is why we have to tell the world the truth,” he says.
-Punch
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