Ojukwu’s burial : Fashola pledges cooperation

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Friday hosted the National Funeral Committee of the Late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, pledging the support of the state government to the committee to ensure a befitting burial for the former military governor of the defunct Eastern Region.

Late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, who died in a London hospital in the early hours of Saturday, November 26, 2011, will be buried on February 30 after a 40 day funeral ceremony which will be held in various parts of the country including Lagos, Kano and Enugu between February 14 and 29, 2012.

Addressing members of the Committee led by its Deputy Chairman, Senator Uche Chukwumeruje, Fashola said his administration would be more than glad to do all that would guarantee a befitting burial for the late Ojukwu including providing venue and adequate security for the Ikemba Day scheduled to take place in Lagos on February 24, 2012.

The governor, who said the Late Ikemba Nnewi was as much a Lagosian as he was a Nigerian, also pledged to handle directly from his office the logistic challenges of transfer flights from Lagos to Enugu of foreign dignitaries for the final funeral event of the deceased on February 29, 2012.

Noting that he had earlier received official communication from the committee requesting him to send in a tribute, Governor Fashola promised that the activity would be coordinated directly from his office for adequate and effective execution, assuring that his team would be able to cope as long as it gets “reasonably sufficient notice on the arrival and departure times as well as names of guests”.

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