Thursday, October 17, 2013

FG to transport Lar’s corpse to Nigeria

Thursday, October 17, 2013


Chief-Solomon-Lar

FG to transport Lar’s corpse to Nigeria


Nigeria’s ambassador to United State, Prof. Ade Adefuye, has said that the Federal Government will bear the cost of conveying the body of the late pioneer National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Solomon Lar, back to the country.

Adefuye said this during a Service of Songs organised by US-based Nigerians and the Nigerian Embassy in the US on Sunday night.

According to a statement, US-based Nigerians and others from Canada, including Nigeria’s Ambassador there, Ojo Maduekwe, trooped to the Nigerian Embassy to pay tribute.
 Lar died last week at a US hospital. He was aged 90.

 Adefuye explained that it was the responsibility of the Federal Government to sponsor the return of Lar’s corpse because of the “historic role” he played in forming the United Middle-Belt Congress.

He said, “Taking care of the cost of the body’s transfer to Nigeria is the right thing for the government to do. The embassy had taken responsibility for repatriating the elder statesman’s remains home.

“This is the right thing to do. Nigerians should not be surprised when the right and proper thing is done. 

The Presidency wishes to express its appreciation at the historic roles Chief Lar had played in forming the United Middle-Belt Congress in the ‘50s in the run up to the country’s independence and then also the NPP in the 70s to nudge the military out of politics.”\

He also hailed Lar’s role in forming the G-34, which opposed the late dictator, General Sanni Abacha, and ultimately transformed into the PDP.

Chief Lar’s wife, Ambassador Mary Lar, said her husband, before breathing his last, clasped his hands together and said, “Nigeria, one; Plateau, one; Tarok, one,” expressing his desire for unity in Nigeria.

“One day we said to each other, if there was ever an opportunity to marry again in another world and place, we would look for each other again and re-marry,” Lar’s widow said.

October 15, 2013 by Jude Owuamanam and Sodiq Oyeleke
http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-to-transport-lars-corpse-to-nigeria/

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Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner

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