July 28, (THEWILL) – Veteran Nigerian singer, Onyeka Onwenu, has slammed the lavish burial that socialite Obi Iyiegbu, also known as Obi Cubana, held for his late mother.
Onwenu disclosed this in an article she wrote for an online platform, Premium Times.
She wrote: “I told a friend just days before the most outrageous burial of Innyom Ezinne Uche Iyiegbu in Oba, Anambra State in July that I had given my family instructions on how to bury me when my time comes. Do it quickly, quietly and privately.
“Celebrate me with prayers, lunch, or dinner afterwards. Share some jokes about me and laugh. Mourn, yes, but not excessively.
“Make merriment and then go about your business. If my friends want to celebrate me, they should do so while I am alive, so that I can enjoy it with them, not when I am gone and have no idea about this. That is me Onyeka Onwenu.”
She, however, clarified that she did not condemn the lavish spending during the burial.
“The point I make here is that there are different strokes for different folks, even within a family. I do not condemn anyone for how they mourn, with their hard-earned money but I am very uncomfortable with lavish display of wealth on any occasion, especially in a time of hardship and lack for most others,” she wrote.
In another part of the article, she wrote about the burial being obscene and insensitive: “The burial of Obi Cubana’s mother was not only lavish, it was obscene and insensitive. It sent all the wrong signals at a time when Nigeria is wracked with widespread poverty and lack.”
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