The mortician in-charge of the Christ Specialist Hospital, Enugu from
where the corpse of Chief Theodore Ezeobi, a Senior Advocate of
Nigeria, SAN, was reportedly stolen last Thursday morning has been
arrested by the State Police Command.
Some unknown persons were said to have broken into the mortuary and
forcefully removed the corpse of the legal practitioner who passed on
four months ago.
The Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu,
confirmed to Vanguard that the mortician on duty when the corpse was
stolen, was already being interrogated with a view to ascertaining how
the corpse disappeared from the morgue.
“It is a true story that the corpse of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria
from Anambra State disappeared from a hospital in Enugu and we are
investigating the matter now.
“The mortician on duty that morning is in our custody and he is helping us in our investigations,” he said.
However, Vanguard learnt that the corpse may have been taken
somewhere in Anambra State for the burial which was scheduled for last
Thursday.
The funeral, which was well advertised was, however, aborted as
security operatives were said to have stormed the village in search of
those in possession of the controversial corpse.
Sources said the first son to the deceased, Theodore Junior Ezeobi,
had placed a newspaper advertorial in which he fixed wake keep and the
burial of his late father for last Wednesday and Thursday respectively.
But reports from the village said the wake keep did not hold
Wednesday night though several canopies were set for the event at the
family compound.
It was gathered that while the son was planning the funeral in line
with the earlier announcement, the daughter of the deceased legal
luminary, Chinelo Ezeobi, placed a counter announcement, a development
that gave the villagers and the deceased lawyer’s friends and associates
the impression that the family was in dispute.
The burial posters for the late SAN which was also signed by Theodore
Junior for the family, was displayed in some locations within the town,
including St. Theresa’s Catholic Church where a burial mass was billed
to be held in his honour.
Chief Ezeobi hailed from Osikwu village, Awgbu, in Orumba North local government area of Anambra State.
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