A newly-appointed Permanent Secretary in Anambra State, Samuel Ike, has said that a cockroach lived inside his ear for four months.
He spoke at the St. James Anglican Church during a thanksgiving service on Sunday.
Ike, of Trade and Commerce ministry, said he was not only thanking God for the position, but on how He saved his life.
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He said the cockroach tormented him while trying unsuccessfully to gain entrance into his brain before it was successfully removed.
“I am not only here to thank God over my recent appointment as a Permanent Secretary.
“I want to thank Him because if not Him, I would have died before now.
“When I was driving one day, I noticed something moving in my ear. It was a medium sized cockroach. I don’t know how it got into my ear.
“It lived in my ear for four months. I visited a hospital at Obosi for two months before it was successfully removed.
“The doctor told me I would have run mad if it had succeeded in gaining entrance into my brain. It was brought out alive and killed by us,” he said.