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.

Haba! Na only him waka come?