Ladi Abba recounted what she calls a humiliating experience at her in‑laws’ village during the burial standoff. She said her delegation from Adamawa reached the Edo community around 3 pm but were never properly received. According to her, they remained outside in the rain for hours as the wife’s family argued and refused to take the corpse.
She told Brekete Family that the in‑laws did not offer chairs or water until they left around 2 am the next morning. She says only the intervention of a policeman forced the family to collect the body after she paid 50,000 naira. Ladi contrasted this with how she had treated them when they came for her brother’s burial in Adamawa, where they were fed and housed well.
She added that many of the same relatives who stayed in her home earlier were among those who now joined in harassing and rejecting her delegation. The Ordinary President described the treatment as “very bad” and emotionally painful.
Ladi Abba said: “When we went there they didn’t even give us chair. We reached there around 3 in the afternoon and left around 2 in the middle of the night. It was one policeman that even helped us; he talked to them and said, ‘No, things are not done that way. Collect your daughter’s corpse and leave these people to go, they owe you nothing.’ When they came for my brother’s burial we treated them very well – we gave them food, we gave them everything, they lacked nothing.”See_More…