FACT-CHECK: Did Osinachi Nwachuwku’s corpse sing Ekwueme in the mortuary?

Recently, the social media was awash with the news of the remains of gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu singing ‘Ekwueme’ while in the mortuary.

The late singer became famous after she featured in Prospa Ochimana’s hit song, Ekwueme, in 2019.

Osinachi also featured in Nara Ekele by Dr. Paul Enenche of Dunamis.

She also had other songs such as The Cry, Ikem, among others before her unfortunate death in April 20122 due to domestic violence.

The music minister died as a result of domestic violence from her husband, Peter Nwachukwu.

Her remains were deposited at the National Hospital Abuja morgue where she died.

However, a blogger, Kemi Filani had claimed that the “singer always sings her Ekwueme track every night.”

She quotes mortuary attendants as making this claim.

CAN THE DEAD SPEAK?

Sciencetifically, it has not been proven that someone confirmed dead by a medic can speak or sing physically except through dream or trance.

However, in African tradition, dead people are believed to be around their corpse until they are buried.
According to a popular superstition, if anybody is poisoned to death and he’s given a knife, torchlight or pepper, he’s capable of fighting for himself and exposing his killer(s) within seven days.

There have been cases of people confessing that dead people were chasing them, but this cannot be proven.

THE ANCHOR’S FINDINGS

Historical research suggests that emotional desires play a key role in conjuring such phenomena. In the past, this research tells us, when an individual felt melancholic and desperate for a manifestation of the supernatural, they would often record a spiritual experience shortly thereafter.

Significantly, nearly 75% of those we surveyed said they didn’t know about spiritualism or its set of beliefs prior to their earliest clairaudient experiences. This suggests that, for many, the sensation of speaking with spirits preceded knowledge of clairaudience as a phenomenon.

Some scholars argue that mediums later tag their voice-hearing to spiritualism as a way of explaining their auditory hallucinations. This “attributional theory” may explain why there are a large number of spiritualist mediums.

NATIONAL HOSPITAL SPEAKS

The National Hospital in Abuja has dismissed the report that Osinachi’s corpse sings at night.
Dr Tayo Haastrup, the spokesman of National Hospital, said there was no proof that Osinachi’s body was singing in the morgue.

Verdict: False.

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