Police arrest mortician over stolen corpse of SAN in Enugu
Enugu State police command has arrested 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.
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.
He hailed from Osikwu village, Awgbu, in Orumba North local government area of Anambra State.
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.
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Police arrest mortician over stolen corpse of SAN in Enugu
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