Pius Adesanmi
was among the passengers who died in an Ethiopian Airline crash in March this
year. He was buried in Ottawa on Saturday October 26th.
The family of
late Nigerian scholar, Pius Adesanmi, are currently battling his wife Muyiwa
with claims that she buried him without their consent.
An article
written by his relative Mike Oyelude and published by The Cable sees his family
accusing his wife of burying him against their wish of having him laid to rest
in his home state of Kogi.
Read the
article below.
“Saturday
November 2, 2019 made it exactly one week since we read on social media about
the purported burial of our son, the late Prof. Pius Adebola Adesanmi. This
burial reportedly took place in Ottawa on October 26, 2019. Since the so-called
burial, we have waited for confirmation and used established channels to find
out what really happened.
It is now
evident, that our late son’s remains were interred in Ottawa without family
consent and contrary to the wish of the deceased to be buried in his place of
birth, Isanlu. To our shock and chagrin, this interment was carried out without
the knowledge or consent of Prof. Adesanmi’s aged mother and his eldest
daughter.
“Since the
death of our son in the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines crash, we have been
subjected to unspeakable disrespect, deceit and discourtesy by Boeing,
Ethiopian Airlines and Prof Adesanmi’s widow in Ottawa. We want to place on
record that neither Boeing, Ethiopian Airlines nor Prof Adesanmi’s widow Olumuyiwa Balogun has done
right by the family. We have not been called nor informed about the accident
till date.
“Prof.
Adesanmi was born in Isanlu, in Kogi State to the Adesanmi family. We raised
our son in the best custom of our ancestors and the Christian faith. Although
his father, Pa Adesanmi passed before his son in relative old age, he is
survived by his aged mother Mama Lois Adesanmi and two young daughters
Oluwadamilare and Oluwatise. It is public knowledge in official and private
circles that both children were born to Prof. Adesanmi in Ottawa to different
mothers, in lawful wedlock.
“Oluwadamilare
‘Dammy’ Adesanmi was born in wedlock to Pius and Oluwatosin in Ottawa. That
makes Dammy a bona-fide Canadian citizen. It is disdainful to make it appear as
if Pius is survived by one child. In our culture and before the law, children
born in lawful wedlock have equal status before the law and society.
Indeed since
our world crashed with Pius last March, nobody has deemed it fit to officially
contact his family in any official capacity. If the airlines whose negligence
led to the untimely death of our son has made contact with anyone on our
behalf, it was incumbent on them to ensure that we were duly carried along by
way of official information and that our consent is sought as to how our son’s
remains would be interred.
“We would
like to place it on record that neither the airline nor anyone else bothered to
seek our consent or approval before the purported ceremony in Ottawa. We refuse
to believe that this was not done deliberately to maximise the pain, the
suffering and the agony of our matriarch” he said
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