Carefully kept chronicles recently dug up reveal that Ewekere, the celebrated beauty queen of her time, from Ayabotu Family in Ayakoromo married Mr Mienye of Akugbene
and gave birth to miss Ayepreotukefiye. Ayepreotukefiye married Mr Okunbiri of Kalafiogbene/Adekagbene. It was a marital union between Mr Okunbiri and Ayepreotukefiye which gave birth to Angosin, Dauebinemune, Margaret Eyorozide and Agnes in a family of four as siblings, though only Mr Angosin was of a different father by name Yekuwe. Margaret Eyorozide was the third child in her family of four siblings which now has Mrs Agnes Money as the only surviving sister. Mrs Margaret Eyorozide Ekotoro was a widely known devotee of God of the CDGM faith in Elohim City Zion, Kalafiogbene/Adekagbene.
Mrs Margaret Ekotoro was not chosen by death; it was she who chose death when she saw that her earthly mission was over. Like Nostradamus and Jesus Christ in their varied psychic exposures, she knew her time and simply beckoned on death to transport her to her new home without the characteristic claws and talons painfully dug into one's body until the last breath goes. Alas, it was death who cried bitterly at being humiliated when she left the world proudly without pains and tears on her own terms of departure from the living world.
Sainthood is not a publicity gimmick; it is earned through sojourn on earth, particularly when the earthly engagements are over at death. This is the time keen observers, archivists, archaeologists and investigative writers begin to unfold the survey plan on the departed. Even the departed did not know the life led was rooted in sainthood.
True sainthood comes after death. Interestingly, archival and archaeological excavations reveal late Mrs Margaret Eyorozide Ekotoro is a saint who left this world on 14 March 2025 without any remembered resentment held against anyone over man-made injuries unjustly inflicted on her by benighted mortals. Her philosophy of forgiveness and forgetfulness was always acted out without words. When deliberately injured by benighted mortals, she swallowed the injurious pill calmly and meekly and showed by her deeds that she had long forgiven the offender without telling the offender openly your sins had been forgiven. Wordlessly, the heart was the headquarters of Mrs Margaret Ekotoro's meek philosophy of forgiveness and forgetfulness.
In mere mortals one can hardly find the behavioural landmarks of Jesus Christ. In Mrs Margaret Ekotoro one can find the behavioural landmarks of Jesus Christ. She was an embodiment of unfailing forgiveness and meekness who bore verbal injuries occasionally inflicted on her by benighted mortals without resentment held against the offenders. Her unfailing forgiving spirit was always wordlessly communicated, only showing in her resentment-free interactions with people who have deliberately stung her like bees.Her story of forgiveness and meekness was always told in pragmatic terms through malice-free interactions with the offenders after the injuries had been malevolently inflicted on her.
Mrs Margaret Ekotoro devotedly worked for God until she attained the respectable position of ELECT MOTHER in the CDGM church. Until her death, she did not miss any CDGM convention. Every year she journeyed as a pilgrim to the Holy Land in Elohim City Zion of CDGM church in Kalafiogbene/Adekagbene to renew her annual vow with God for the protection of her entire family.
Mrs Margaret Ekotoro had ten children through marriage to Mr Ekotoro Oruserikeme of Ezebiri town - Mrs Evelyn Bekere Kemasuode, Chief John, Mrs Queen Makarava, Bishop Boro, Comrade Seaman, Hon. Monday, Mrs Lucky Layefa Ekanpou and Mrs Happy Truston Gbenekama. Out of the ten children she had, two journeyed to the underworld before her while she left behind eight children at death. All through her earthly life she did not have a single quarrel with any of her children or any other person outside her family. She was an embodiment of meekness as often preached by Jesus Christ. Her entire life was governed by meekness and this explained why she was always at peace with everyone without malice however the level of deliberate provocation.
Mrs Margaret Ekotoro engaged varied occupations that ranged from supply and sale of drums, ogogoro gin and Akoro wood business. The Akoro wood businesd took her to Ijebu-ode and other cities in Western Nigeria. After all these occupations , Mrs Margaret Eyorozide Ekotoro took up tailoring as her main engagement.
With no prior training and apprenticeship, Mrs Margaret Eyorozide Ekotoro suddenly decided to become a tailor after buying a machine. Rather miraculously, she became an excellent tailor without apprenticeship, specialising in the 'making' of church garments. Her tailoring was restricted to making of church garments ; this was borne out of her desire to contribute meaningfully to the growth of Christianity on the CDGM platform and be on a favourable path with God.
Mrs Margaret Ekotoro was a very godly woman who embraced christianity with enthusiasm. Her godliness inspired her to devote her tailoring to church 'garment-making' because she did not want any secular distractions from doing the work of God. Even at 99 she was still a master of her machine that gave her economic stability and joy as all her personal achievements were built from her tailoring profession. Until her death, Mrs Margaret Ekotoro could still pass the thread through the needle in her machine without being aided by a pair of glasses. She had a bitter vision than the eagle until death came at 99.
Ijaws generally like music. Mrs Margaret Ekotoro was a great lover of Ijaw music who enjoyed good music. At her side, a constantly blaring music from her gramophone inspired in her hardwork and indefatigability when at work. Music was a special delicacy she enjoyed both day and night. Specifically, she enjoyed the musical masterpieces of King Robert Ebizimor, Bestman Doupere, Field Marshall Echo Toikumo and Hon. Agbeotu Teiyeibo.
Mrs Margaret Ekotoro's love of Ijaw highlife music was laced with a bias, as it was King Robert Ebizimor's music that always held her spellbound much more than others and gave her the unfailing energy and inspiration to engage her machine both day and night without distraction. Buried in instrumentally and lyrically striking songs from her prized gramophone and her restless leg-driven machine, Mrs Margaret Ekotoro momentarily saw herself in another Heaven on earth where she knew no distraction.
Machine and music virtually meant the whole world to Mrs Margaret Ekotoro whenever she found herself in the world of twosome communication between her and the two stationary objects, producing results that enlivened her economically, socially, culturally, morally, philosophically, psychologically and occupationally. Without the blaring music and the whirring or weaving noise from the machine around her, coupled with her programmed religious activities in the CDGM church, Mrs Margaret Ekotoro's life was incomplete.
The whole world appears to have agreed that Mrs Margaret Ekotoro was an amazing devotee of God whose interactions with people had the aroma of pragmatic Christianity. She practised what the Bible preached.
Mrs Margaret Ekotoro must be an intuitive person - indeed, a psychic! Intuitively aware of her prepared departure, she didn't go to bed at her usual time of 8pm on 14 March 2025 because she knew she would be found dead by her children in the morning, which could be an inconvenience. She did not want to take her children unawares at death. She ate her meal with relish, drank coke and water and watched an interesting movie of her choice to the end. When all these activities were over, she visited the white house and eased herself shortly, sat nobly and happily on her bed and told her daughter, Mrs Happy Truston Gbenekama , that it was time for her to die. Mrs Margaret Ekotoro communicated that she wouldn't like to take her last breath right inside the house and cause inconvenience. Her daughter understood this and rushed Mrs Margaret Ekotoro to a nearby hospital. Mrs Margaret Ekotoro smiled and took her last breath before the hospital. At the hospital the medical doctor confirmed that she had died one minute ago before the hospital.
At death Mrs Margaret Ekotoro's last smile was radiant on her face as she lay spreadeagled on the hospital bed. Margaret died nobly because she did not want to take her children unawares at death. For her children and grandchildren to wake up in the morning and find her dead in her sleeping bed was what Mrs Margaret Ekotoro clairvoyantly avoided when she chose to die nobly without the piercing claws and talons of death. At death Mrs Margaret Ekotoro told the world how to die nobly without inconvenience to the living.
A phenomenally forgiving and meek mother-in-law has departed this world of benighted people. For a forgiving and meek woman who walked on the monotheistic path; for a forgiving and meek woman who loved her children and humanity with passion; for a forgiving and meek woman who died heroically without troubling her children by telling death to come upon her because she was ready; for a forgiving and meek woman who smiled before death and left a memorable smile on her face at death, signalling the fact that at death she was not sad but full of happiness and smile because the journey ended meaningfully; for a forgiving and meek woman who led a STAINLESSLY saintly and motherly life on earth, let the celebratory bells ring loudly for her on 27 November 2025 at Kalafiogbene/Adekagbene with her prized secular songs of King Robert Ebizimor, Field Marshall Echo Toikumo, Hon. Agbeotu Teiyeibo, Bestman Doupere and moving religious tunes from the CDGM church in Elohim City Zion.
Many are the dead that have journeyed to the underworld, sometimes lukewarmly celebrated, but this pioneer of noble death, Mrs Margaret Eyorozide Ekotoro, is different. No dead deserves a better celebration than Mrs Margaret Eyorozide Ekotoro who will feel more ennobled at death if her philosophy and ideals become the moral pair of compass for this generation and beyond, particularly in Ogbotobo, Ayakoromo, Okoloba, Akugbene and Kalafiogbene/Adekagbene communities where her true historical roots of origin lie buried in varying degrees. Home Mrs Margaret Eyorozide Ekotoro has gone at last without any medical doctor's overly dramatic, puny resuscitation mutilations on the untainted healthy body with which she came into this world.
Dr. Ekanpou writes from Akparemogbene, Delta State
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