Nwobodo absent as son is finally buried

The remains of Dr. Ifeanyi Nwobodo, first son of a for­mer governor of old Anambra State, Jim Nwobodo, were finally laid to rest yesterday in his hometown Amechi Awkunanaw in the Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State.

The burial, which could not hold on December 5 due to the insistence of the former governor that the corpse should not be buried in his compound, finally held yesterday with a scanty crowd in atten­dance.
Former governor Nwobodo, who after the botched burial told news­men that he was through with the burial was con­spicuously absent as the corpse was laid to rest in his elder brother Mr. John Nwobodo’s compound.
Nwobodo who described the disappearance of the corpse on December 5 as an abomination queried the decision of his children to fix the new burial date without his consent.
In his sermon during the burial service at St. Mathews Anglican Church in Amechi, Archbishop Emmanuel Chukwuma of the Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, disclosed that fa­ther of the deceased report­ed him to primate Nicholas Oko, that he fixed a date for the burial of his son with­out his consent.
Chukwuma told the con­gregation that he narrated to the primate how Nwo­bodo’s children fixed the burial date and the circum­stances that led to it.
The bishop said he told the primate that the former governor abandoned his family all the while.
Nwobodo had petitioned the police alleging that his children wanted to kill him.
The Archbishop further revealed that he got a text message from the former governor claiming that no­body was allowed to attend the burial as a community except on individual basis.