Politics
Buguma Community Dares Wike Over Dead Of Chief
Buguma Community, Headquarters of Akuku Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State, South South, Nigeria, is now in the news again obviously this time not for political and cultism reasons that the areas is known for but basically with a circumstance that relates to the death of their son Chief Odiari Princewill ,who until his sudden demise was a sitting council chairman.
Just last week, the death of chief Odiari Princewill filtered into the public domain, and suddenly, the news broke in with severally electronic airwaves trying to outsmart everyone to break news due to the strategic position late Princewill occupied: although, the death of Chief Odiari, may have left several person (s) to speculate that it may have been one of the many scam news that have characterized the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic disease that have sweep across the globe. But, true to it; Chief Odiari was dead with no written note or any indication of illness as was reported by his immediate family members who are still in shock of the vacuum his death has brought to the immediate family members, whom we have gathered is still grieved of their late father and uncle a prominent Kalabari King whose tradition has forbidden anyone from announcing his demised.
Although, the death of Chief Odiari Princewill has signal another turning point after the incident of politically motivated killings and cultism that have characterized the ancient area with countless of lives loss in all the circumstances.
A source in the community had told the Town Crier that the manner in which late Odiari was suddenly buried without the necessary rituals that usually characterized a Chief of its nature in the community left everyone in doubt about what the state Governor Nyesom Wike tend to achieved for such quick action against their son, which he said they are suspecting a foul play somewhere, adding that –in spite of the position their late son occupies in the society he ought ordinarily would have giving a befitting burial ceremony with necessary traditions and culture rites that usually accompany such ceremony.
“I think what has happened is a mire slap on our people. What the Governor did is lack of respect to our culture and the people. No matter what, The Governor should accord our son that little respect. We are ready for him. Our son is a chief and cannot be buried like a nobody.” our source threatened.
Outside that, the tension that the death of the council boss has generated has put a lot of speculations penultimate week that the body of late Princewill that was buried at the Port Harcourt Cemetery was exhumed by some unidentified persons, a position the Rivers State Police Command has earlier refuted while conducting journalists around the cemetery. The State Police Boss through its spoke person Namdi Omoni ,DSP has said that information regards to the exhumed of the body of late Odiari Princewill was false and a cooked up by some person(s) he said he is yet to understand what the stand to benefit on this.
But so far, Rivers State Government is yet to tell the public anything concerning the death of the late council chairman as at the time of press even as we still promised to keep tap with every details as regards the buildup of some police officials around the Port Harcourt cemetery.
Investigation conducted by the Town Crier indicates that until the time of the demise of Chief Odiari Princewill , his father`s corpse including that of his uncle was still in an undisclosed mortuary in the state.
We also gathered that before the demised of the late council chairman, his plans was billed to give the father whom we also gathered was a chief a befitting burial, but all that we gathered is now the reverse that some of our sources are accusing the State Government of trying to play politics with the dead of their son.
So far, source said some strange looking faces have started patrolling the ancient community in order to stop any outbreak of lawlessness in the community.
