Ojukwu to be buried in a Gold casket

The late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu would be buried in an American gold mixed with bronze casket the Sun reports.

Ojukwu’s widow, Bianca, who is in London to begin preparations for bringing back the corpse of the departed Biafran warlord told Saturday Sun that the make-up of the casket was to depict the simple nature of Ojukwu when he was alive.
She disclosed that the customised casket has the family crest and the family coat of arms.

Asked how Ojukwu wanted to be buried, Bianca said that besides making specific request that his body be taken to Aba, in Abia State, he did not as such set other standards, though he was in love with the Roman army.
“Therefore, I would want that he be laid out as a Roman General. You know he was in love with the army and had loved Roman Generals. Therefore, he would be laid out as a Roman General,” she said.

Bianca said that she moved to London well ahead of burial committee members to enable her clear the customised casket.
With the casket cleared, Bianca said that they are looking forward to a requiem mass to be organised in honour of Ojukwu today at the St George’s Cathedral in London by the Igbo community in the United Kingdom, which would be followed by an all-night wake-keep.

Tomorrow, she said they would begin the journey back home, with a brief stopover in Abuja on Monday, where a brief military ceremony would be held for Ojukwu by the Nigerian Army.
She thanked the Nigerian High Commission for the role the commissioner and his deputy played in London, saying that help from the Igbo living in London has been amazing, as everybody wanted to play one role or the other.

Source: Sun online

22 COMMENTS

  1. so happy wit d burial committee members and family members of our leader…Eze igbo gburugburu for all they done so far.
    He deserves a befitting burial like this.
    Our Ikemba in life u were great, in death u r greater. U wil ever live in oue heart.
    Tank u for standing up for us wen it mattered. We wil live d dream.
    Welcome home

  2. harry or what you called yourself, you are a big fool, useless tin, do you know who ojukwu is to us, do you know what he is to us, he deserve more than a golden casket, if you are an igboist what did ur parent did for us, nothing, foooooollll like you, go to healll.

  3. People dey hunger, dem con dey bury person with Gold….i laugh my ass out…..anyhw sha! 4 dis world, make ur money and kip chopping it even 4 grave!
    I pray he gains rest…and dos wey need cash fit strik d casket afta 1mnth abeg! Long live biafra ruler!

  4. @ critisizers; if Ikemba is buried with just plywood or better still, ordinary kaki, will it stop people from being poor? let’s be reasonable @ once. kindly take ur criticism to the appropriate quarters, and i want to beg to be corrected that if care is not taken none of u criticisers has ever helped ur nebos let alone affecting peoples life. Rubbish!

  5. I don’t blame anybody, I fill sorry for those innocent souls who lost their dear lives during the BIAFRA war, In my village many under aged youth were drag to the war front even their corpse did not come back but here is the masterminder of such tragic event just died few days ago and people are hailing him. the question is where is BIAFRA today. anyway may his soul rest in peace, HEAVEN IS REAL AND HELLFIRE IS REAL.

  6. I for one dont care if he is buried or left to decay,or if he is buried with crude oil,dis man is responsible for thousands of death and ran away when shit hit the fan,a power monger who achieved nothing,a selfish coward who couldnt face d heat but sent innocent ignorant souls to thier early deaths,i have one sentence 4 u,gud riddiance to smelling rubbish,now go and be judged.if u feel hurt by my words go hug transformer and join him.mcheww