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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