Mrs. Nnena Abiona, daughter of the late former military governor of Lagos State, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, has lamented the embarrassment of the legal action brought by one of her late father’s widows over her burial arrangements as a big show of shame to the family.
She demurred that her father would be very unhappy with the family legal fight over the late Kanu’s burial plans.
She said it was their plan to bury their father peacefully and give him all the traditional rites of passage as their father was a traditional man, but were taken aback when they were summoned to court, which she said was a rude shock to them.
The daughter of Late Ndubuisi Kanu said that there was no time any member of the family wanted to prevent their father’s wife, Mrs Glady Kanu, from attending her husband’s burial ceremony.
She said they were surprised when their father’s widow dragged them before an Ikeja High Court asking the court to issue an injunction prohibiting other members of the family from threatening her and allowing her to properly prepare for the burial of her husband.
The presiding judge in the suit, after hearing the matter, and with the intervention of the Navy and the Ovim kinsmen of the late people Kanu had to issue orders that would ensure that peace and order are maintained before and during the burial of the late former governor and democracy activist.
It subsequently released the dead body to the Navy for burial.
In order to comply strictly with the orders of the judge, the burial date scheduled to take place on the 16th of October 2021was brought forward to the 15th of October, “for security reasons”.
The judge adjourned the case for a substantive hearing on the matter to the 15th of November 2021.
It will be recalled that Mrs. Gladly Kanu who dragged other members of the family to court gave her reasons for doing so.
She said that her life was threatened by the first son of the late Ndubuisi Kanu, Mr. Kelly Kanu, whose mother was officially divorced by the deceased when he was alive.
She alleged that Kelly went to their family house in the village and take over her matrimonial home she had lived with her late husband for over 27 years they had been legally married.
She also accused Kelly of breaking into their home and changing the keys of the house.
She also alleged that Jeffrey the second son, Kelly’s younger sibling, who lived with her and his husband when he was alive also broke into their home and equally changed the keys, hence her resort to approaching the court to put things in their proper order in the family.
Gladys said that she was the only legally married wife of the late Ndubuisi Kanu.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Navy, the Governments of Abia and Imo State have buried the late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu as instructed by the court, with his family playing the role of a spectator.
