Bianca Ojukwu plots grand burial for mum

The remains of Mrs. Caroline Onoh, the wife of former Anambra State Governor Christian Chukwuma (C. C) Onoh, will be interred on August 5. She was 81. The burial date was fixed at the weekend, after an enlarged meeting of the Onoh family at their ancestral home in Enugu-Ngwo in Enugu State.

A statement by one of the sons to the late matriarch, Dr. Josef Umunnakwe Onoh, said their mother would be buried on Friday, August 5 at their family home at Enugu-Ngwo, after various rites, such as church services. Onoh Jnr, who is the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Special Projects, said his mother lived a fulfilled life for which their family is grateful to God.

He said details of the burial arrangement would be made known in due course. The late matriarch’s children are: Nigeria’s Ambassador-nominee, Lilian Onoh; Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain and wife of the late Igbo leader, Dame Bianca Ojukwu and former Chairman of Enugu North Local Government Area, Chief G. B. Onoh. The former beauty is said to have swung into action to give her mother a befitting buriaL.