Somethings, one will never understand, can you imagine this, the man is gone forever just like that, according to the reports, he had an encounter with some trigger happy Policemen and that was it, his life was lost forever, sent to his early grave, friends and family members could not believe their eyes, tears and anguish at the burial ceremony. May the God of heaven have mercy upon our soul.

Uncontrollable tears, anguish and curses characterised the burial, yesterday, of the remains of the late Ugochukwu Chukwudi Ozuah, the groom who shot dead in Lagos five days after his wedding, in his country home, Mgbakwu, in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Thirty-six-year-old Ozuah was said to have been shot dead by policemen when he went to see his friend off at the Anthony Village area of Lagos. During his burial yesterday, the wailing got to the peak when the brown casket bearing his remains was opened for the lying-in-state ceremony at the family house, as men, women and youths refused to be consoled. In the casket, Ugochukwu was dressed in his wedding suit.  The wailing relatives of the deceased had freely cursed those who killed Ugochukwu.

The anger and pains of the young man’s death was so much that even the pastors who normally pray for forgiveness and repentance joined in the pray that the killers should meet their doom. Ugochukwu’s pretty widow of five days marriage, Joan and his mother, Deaconess Chinwe Ozuah, were actually in another world as they could not comprehend what befell them. They stood behind the casket looking absent-mindedly at the lifeless body.  While the widow, Joan, muttered words amid rushing tears, Ugochukwu’s mother raised her voice saying:

“Ugochukwu, is it you? Where have you been? You left me, why didn’t you wait for me to go first? Your blood will hunt your killers all the days of their lives. Amen.”  Before the casket bearing his remains was lowered to the grave at about 11.33am, Rev. Kevin Ohamara of the Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Awka had, in his sermon at the funeral service held in the compound by the church, urged the family and all those his death affected to be consoled.  Taking his text from Ecclesiastics 7:1-2, the pastor said that though the pains of the family and all were that Ugochukwu was lost at his prime, the consolation should be that he has gone to stay with his maker ...Source