The family of the Late Senate President in the Second Republic, Dr. Joseph Wayas, paid 6,710 pounds (N13,366,320) to a London mortuary before being allowed to view his remains, even as the body has reportedly run up expenses tallying up to N129 million at the facility.
Wayas has been dead and his body has been preserved there since 2021.
Second Republic Senate President (between 1979 and 1983) Joseph Wayas died, aged 80, in a London Hospital on Tuesday, November 30, 2021.
Justice Maurice Odey Eneji, Chairman of Joseph Wayas’ Burial Fact-Finding Committee original, disclosed this on the 27th February 2024.
It was revealed that the managers of the morgue said the amount was the cost of maintaining the body and other charges for the more than two years after the death of Wayas on 30th November 2021.
In a statement, Odey disclosed that in line with the burial committee’s agreement with the deceased’s daughter, Ms Donna Wayas, the family still needs 60,478 pounds, about N129,934,992 meet up with mortuary bills.
He also said that they have launched a passionate appeal to raise the stated amount of money.
In addition, he said that they also needed to refund the sum of 7,210 pounds that was paid on behalf of the family to the morgue managers in London.
Former Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade, in addition to managing the late Wayas’ health condition, also, released N200 million for his body to be brought back to Nigeria for burial when he died.
