A
man who expressed reluctance in fulfilling the traditional marriage
rites of a lady before putting her in the family way has been compelled
to do so after her demise.
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A man identified as Chudi who reportedly cohabited with a lady
known as Ginika in Lagos without properly engaging her in marriage
before she died in his custody, will now marry her corpse before she
will be buried.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the embattled Chudi has agreed to pay
N800,000 to the family of the deceased as part of the marriage rites
including her bride price.
It was gathered that Ginika’s family has insisted on collecting N5
million, but after much pleading the parties arrived at the price.
This was an agreement reached by both families as a way of settling
the matter with the police before Chudi was granted administrative bail
to travel for the marriage proposal to the corpse of the lady.
P.M.EXPRESS had reported that Chudi landed in trouble after he took
custody of late Ginika as wife without paying her bride price and the
consent of her family.
He lived with the woman at Idimu, Lagos and they had two kids
before she died at an undisclosed private hospital where she went to
deliver her third baby.
The supposed husband, Chudi went to her family to report the death
but was arrested and handed over to the police for abduction and
suspected murder.
Both the suspect and the deceased were from the Eastern part of the
country. The matter was reported to the Police at Area M Command, Idimu
following a petition by the deceased family to the Area Commander,
Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Austin Akika who ordered one
Inspector Odion to investigate the allegations.
It was gathered that the deceased family in the petition alleged
that Chudi abducted late Ginika some years ago and hid her from the
family who has been looking for her in those years and discovered that
it was Chudi that abducted and killed her.
Meanwhile, all the years they have lived together, a correspondent
gathered the late wife had requested that Chudi should go to her family
and formalize the relationship according to the Igbo culture and
tradition and he promised but never did.
So Chudi will now marry her corpse for peace to reign between the families.
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