The corpses were brought out for burial on Saturday, November 8th, 2019 but an argument ensued over the burial ground as the Village Head of the community, Efio-Awan Asuquo Asibong told DAILY POST in her palace on Thursday evening that the deceased were not indigenes of the community, hence cannot be buried on land.
“I showed him a place in their family compound across the road to bury his mother and father and he agreed, but other family members rejected the place and he didn’t come back to tell me. Instead, they came with the people and insisted they must bury their parents and started digging the graves. Speaking with our reporter, a man who claimed to be next to the Clan Head of Uduak Edem Clan, Oyoyo Etim Oyo Ita said that officials of Calabar Urban Development Authority came and saw the corpses and have commenced legal action against the family members for abandoning the corpses of their parents in an open place.
He said, “Instead of them evacuating the corpses, the children brought in suspected cultists who inflicted mayhem in the community in which some people sustained injuries.”