The popular RNB musician Peter and Paul Okoye popularly called PSquare bury’s
mum today at ST’ Gabriel Catholic Church Ifite-Dunu, Anambra State,
where tens of people from the villages thronged to cheer the
talented music icon mothers’ burial.
The 62 year-old Late Mrs Josephine Okoye who was
until her death, was regarded as a spiritualist and a prayer agent, saddled
with the responsibility of deliverance and counselling ministry in the environment
was reported to have died of long term ailment that had caused the entire
community seize less praying revival before her demise.
Against the much speculated huge sum of money that was
reported in the media for the burial ceremony, reports revealed that the
burial programme did not reflect the envisaged amount amongst the perceived
neglect and sign of discord seen on the people’s faces.
Little wonder that journalists were denied access to cover
the burial ceremony and as well beaten by the hired tugs of the duo’s
brother Jude Okoye, from performing their civic duty at Mrs Okoyes’
requiem mass at St Gabriel Catholic Church Ifite-Dunu premises as well as
at the place on internment .
Our
correspondent reports that there were so much unease and perceived tension on
the minds of the bereaved against what the media would report from the
disconnect that was latter gotten from the villagers and the measure of
esteemed dissociation from the entire community before their mother’s burial.
Speaking with a villager, Mr Joseph Ozodinobi
who described the late Mrs Josephine Okoye as a mother of
good resource but the family, in particular the children, having garnered the
much envisaged fame are not able to impact on the lives of the people in
the community.
He regret
the idea of the fame of some Nigerians garnered home and abroad,
without any direct impact on the lives of their people, noting that they need
to touch lives of people that made them and leave a foot print on the
sand of time that they will be remembered for, ’’ I do not stay in the village,
I was fortunate to be in the village and witness their mother’s burial.
I
have nothing to say about them because they are known by many people in Lagos
and Abuja name it, but my people cannot point to any project or talk of any
lives they have been able to affect since‘’, said Samuel Ozodinobi
.
Aside
been barred from covering the burial ceremony, journalists around did not spot
any popular artiste of their musical category to cheer their colleagues
mother’s demise, where the like of 2face,Dbanj, 9ice, Davido the famous Akon ,
Rick Ross and their likes were conspicuously absent, you would
agree with the feeling exhibited by the villagers to the Late Josephine Okoyes’
burial.
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