By Austin Ogwuda

Enugu—ANOTHER round of crisis is brewing in Enugu State, following a fresh arrangement to have late Dr. Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo, son of the first civilian governor of old Anambra State, Senator Jim Nwobodo, buried next week in his father’s compound, after it was initially aborted.

Vanguard gathered that the wife of the deceased medical doctor and his siblings were planning to get him buried next week, an arrangement the father is opposed to, insisting that his late son should be buried in a new bungalow located few metres away from his present compound.

Addressing newsmen in Enugu, Senator Jim Nwobodo said he was not aware of the fresh plans, adding that he would have nothing again to do with the burial after the corpse was hijacked because of disagreement over burial arrangements.

According to him, “this is the first time in my life that a set of children would seize the corpse of their senior brother. It is an abomination of intolerable dimension.

“It is so stupid. I am not sure that those who did it are intelligent and they do not really love their brother because the best thing they can do is to ensure that their brother gets a decent burial.

“After that day, as far as I am concerned, I concluded the burial of Ifeanyi and I will never go back to it again.

“It is unusual for a father to bury his son and I did not want that. We did not expect that he would die so soon.”

Shedding more light on the aborted burial, which was initially fixed for December 5, he said: “I set up a committee for the burial and they knew all the arrangements that were being made.

“There are two lands we own: we have ancestral home about 30 minutes away from here after the river that is Umuogo. This is where everybody born in our family has a place.

“But present place is Jim Nwobodo place and I can only give it to whom I want. It is my own business. I did not know that there was any protest. If I had known, I would have discussed it with them. Because of the protest which I didn’t know about, I invited my friends. Do you know Zik’s wife was here, Ngige, deputy senate president everybody was here. By 11, I started asking about the corpse and was told that the corpse was at the Eastern centre, which was nowhere to be found as I speak,” he lamented.