This is how Thenet reports it,
Fast rising Nigerian singer, Margaret Mary Oluwatoyin Ejiro Joseph,
popularly known as Zara Gretti passed away on March 28, 2014 at the age
of 28, after losing her battle with Multiple Sclerosis. The controversy
about how she was abandoned by several of her colleagues in the music
industry is no longer news.
The way a lot of music celebrities all took to social media to
famz, eulogize and send condolence messages after she passed on when
most of them never lifted a finger to help keep her alive is unsavory
enough on its own. But, NET can reveal exclusively that there’s a
development that’s even much more disturbing than the way she was
abandoned before she passed on. In preparation for the one year
anniversary of her death, NET paid a visit to the Ikoyi Cemetery, Lagos
where Zara was buried on Thursday, March 19, 2015, and the following
shocking discoveries were made: Cemetery register confirms Zara’s
burial: This reporter visited Ikoyi Cemetery office, Lagos.
After getting the details of the actual place her remains were
interred, an extensive search of the cemetery records and register
revealed that Zara Gretti was indeed, buried at the Ikoyi Cemetery on
Friday, April 4, 2014. According to the register, her grave was in
Section five of the cemetery. Curiosity was fully pricked though, when
the attendant, identified as the secretary of the facility who attended
to this reporter asked absent-mindedly: ‘Do you know if this was the
third or fourth time that particular grave was used?’ The quick response
was that I was not around when she was brought for burial; hence there
was no way I could know about that.
Official could not locate her tomb: After the register had
confirmed that she was indeed buried at the cemetery, we proceeded to
the grounds. On getting to the area identified as Section Five by the
official, it was shocking to find out that Zara’s tomb could not be
found. 2-hour search proved abortive: Upon insisting on seeing the tomb,
we continued to search, but the time spent proved fruitless. We can
reveal exclusively that Zara Gretti’s grave is missing. Referring to his
question on how many times the tomb had been used. The official was
quick to deny that any such thing ever happens at all. ‘We don’t ever
use a grave for another corpse once someone has been buried there,’ he
said, forgetting that he had said something quite contrary earlier. The
official took this reporter’s phone number, promising to call him when
he eventually locates the grave. He is yet to do so as at press time.
This development raises some disturbing questions.
Do cemetery officials actually exhume bodies of buried people at
the cemeteries without duly informing the deceased’s family or getting
their approval? What has become of Zara’s grave at Ikoyi Cemetery just
one year after she was buried there?
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