Woman Dies Inside Church During Transition In Ilesa

Ismaeel Uthman

A middle-aged woman identified as Hannah Ige, has reportedly died in a Cherubim and Seraphim church at Okesa in Ilesa, Osun State.

Ige, a mother of seven children, was said to have died while in transition at the church late Tuesday. 

A woman who claimed to be the deceased’s younger sister said Ige’s lifeless body was dropped at her husband’s house around 1pm by the “Iyajo of the church” on Wednesday.

The woman who was weeping and refused to mention her name during a conversation with OSUN DEFENDER said: “My sister has died. We were told she died this (Wednesday) morning inside the church. She was on transition when she died. She was a member of the church.

“We were not informed of her death by the church people. It was the Iyajo of the church that came to drop her lifeless body at home. She packed the body in a long sack. And we observed that the body wasn’t that of a fresh corpse.”

A former Chairman of Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Osun State, Comr. Wahab Akinrinade, said a relative of the deceased came to report the case to him. 

Akinrinade said the said Iyajo has been arrested by the police. 

A media practitioner who was aware of the incident told OSUN DEFENDER that the deceased died on the seventh day of her transition.

“The woman should be around 50 years. She regularly embarked on transition; she was part of those people who would go on transition without eating on drinking for days. 

“I learnt that woman was on the seventh day of transition without eating or drinking when she died.”