Seinye Lulu-Briggs Loses At Last As Son Dumo Takes Possession Of Dad’s Corpse

There finally seems a closure to the stalemate in the release of the mortal remains of the late head of the Owuwari Lulu-Briggs family, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs as his son, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs has taken possession of his father’s corpse.

Indeed, it has been a long legal battle between the widow of the late oil magnate, Seinye Lulu-Briggs and the sons of the late Billionaire, led by Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs.

The widow of the late Lulu-Briggs who died aboard a flight to Ghana on 28, December, 2018 had held on to the corpse claiming among other things that she was about to be subjected to cruel widowhood rights by her step sons, specifically, Dumo Lulu-Briggs.

On the other hand, Chief Dumo contested the autopsy performed in Ghana and alleged that his father may not have died a natural death.

It was a battle which held the country enthralled for over 12 months while the people of Abonnema where the late billionaire philanthropist hailed from gnashed their teeth in anger for it is unheard of for a man of Lulu-Briggs age and status to remain unburied, in a lonely morgue, for as long as one year.

Late last night, the spokesperson for Mrs Lulu-Briggs, Oraye St.Franklyn had shared a WhatsApp broadcast raising an alarm that Dumo Lulu Briggs had ‘hijacked’ his father’s corpse from the mortuary.

However, a statement signed by Sotonye Ijuye-Dagogo, has shed more light on the issue of the so called ‘hijacking’ of the corpse.

His statememt reveals that a High Court in Ghana,Tuesday, 25th February, dismissed a fresh application by Mrs. Seinye Lulu-Briggs, seeking to restrain the mortuary and the Ghanaian police from releasing the body of her late husband to the family.

“Accordingly, the mortuary has released the mortal remains to the family led by Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, as ordered by the High Court on December, 23, 2019 and upheld by the Supreme Court of Ghana on February, 11, 2020.” The statement reads.

For now at least, the mortal remains of High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs is in the hands of his sons.

What other drama plays out before and during the burial of the respected philanthropist will not be as important as laying to rest a great son of Rivers State and an extraordinary Nigerian.