The first daughter of late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Mrs. Nnenna Abiona,(nee Kanu) has lamented the embarrassment of the legal action brought by one of her wives over her father’s burial arrangement as a big show of shame to the family, adding that his father will be very unhappy with the family legal fight over his 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 their family wanted to prevent their father’s wife Mrs Glady Kanu from attending her husband’s burial ceremony, they were suppressed when their father’s wife who is a plaintiff, in this case, dragged them before Ikeja High Court presided over by Justice Christopher Balogun asking the court to issue an injunction prohibiting other members of the family who are respondents in the case, their agents or privies from threatening her and allow her to properly prepare for the burial of her husband.
The presiding judge after hearing the matter, with the intervention of the Navy and other well-meaning Ovim people Ndubuisi Kanu kinsmen have to issue orders that will ensure that peace and order are maintained before and during the burial of late Kanu before releasing the dead body to the Navy to ensure that all his orders a carried out.
In other to complied strictly with the orders of the judge, the burial date scheduled to take place on the 16th October 2021was brought forward to the 15th October 2021 for security reasons.
The judge adjourned the case for a substantive hearing on the matter on the 15th, 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 late Ndubuisi Kanu, Mr. Kelly Kanu whose mother was officially divorced by late Ndubuisi Kanu when he was a life, went to their family house in the village and take over her matrimonial home she said, she has lived with late husband for over 27 years they have legally married.
She accused Mr Kelly of breaking into her chamber and changing the keys of the house she spent Christmas with her husband before his death.
She said at the same time, Jeffrey the 2nd son, Kelly’s younger sibling who lived with her and his husband when he was a life also broked 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.
Mrs Gladly said that she is the only legally married wife of 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.