Late Businessman’s Children Heartbroken… As Robbers Invade Olorogun Michael Ibru’s Grave
It is one thing to honour the welltold dictum to speak no evil of the dead. It is another thing to act no evil towards them. The grave robber is one species of humanity that proves the latter and the former are not mutually inclusive. Fantastical men of graveyard legends, they scale down ropes to the bottom of earth-deep resting places; they come armed with scalpels and other prying implements, hewing or sawing the lids off expensive coffins.
If the grim reaper reaps the living as he will without recourse to considerations of status, his close cousins, the raiders in the crypt, rob from the dead as they will. They care not one jot for the sanctity of the resting place, nor do they place any stock on the consternation of living relatives.
Little wonder when robbers descended on the grave of the late Olorogun Michael Ibru, founder of the colossal Ibru empire, the whole family and community was thrown into pandemonium. It did not matter that their attempts to pillage the golden coffin of the late icon was unsuccessful. A heist on the living is bad enough. A heist, even a botched one, on the famous dead marks another level of depravity.
Presumably acting on the orders dastardly and evil-minded employers, the daredevils attempted to make away with the casket of the revered late philanthropist. They came prepared with concentrated and corrosive acids which they used to no avail on the tomb located behind the popular Ibru clinic in the family home of Agbarha-Otor, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.
The traumatized family members and concerned community denizens have since escalated the matter to the Ughelli B Division of the Nigerian Police with an injunction to get to the roots of the matter as soon as possible. When sacrilege is carried out at night, action must be taken to prevent the perpetrators from being emboldened to try their luck during the daytime. A temporary curfew has since been placed while efforts continue to fish out the robbers from their hiding place.