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For Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, all the talk about disinheriting his late father’s wife and her children are utter balderdash and the hullabaloo over his father’s estate should at best take a secondary seat.
What is uppermost in his mind is to quickly establish the true cause of his father’s death and give him a befitting burial. These are the least he should do as a worthy son of his father.
Dumo Lulu-Briggs says that any attempt to deny his stepmother, Mrs. Seinye Lulu-Briggs from performing her traditional role during the burial, would demean his father’s burial ceremony.
“I know that it would not be right to deny Seinye her role as a wife. It would even demean my father’s burial to deny Seinye her role. She needs to come in her splendor as a woman of means.
On the struggle for control over his father’s estate, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs says:
“I am a lawyer and if I were concerned about acquiring property, I would have done something regarding Moni Pulo, so that nobody gets revenue from the company, but I haven’t done any such thing.
“Seinye is still running Moni Pulo. Our father was the executive chairman of the company and he is no more and we have not taken any action.
“We have to separate the issues. What is important to me now is that I give my father a befitting burial. Those who are concerned about property are the ones running up and down. The way they are going about trying to seize his property is why many people think that our father’s corpse was taken from Port Harcourt to Accra, so that the death certificate and other papers would be issued to the person who brought the body to Accra and they can use the papers to access banks and other things.
“But this is a different matter entirely. Let’s come together to clear the doubts about how he died and quickly give him the most befitting burial.
“I became wary when I heard that my father was kept in the plane for more than five hours on the ground and that there were possibilities that he may have died in Port Harcourt before he was flown to Accra”.
“I petitioned, with the consent of my brothers, the IGP in Nigeria to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of our father.
“How do I bury my father when I don’t have the body,” Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs asked.
He dismissed claims that he (Dumo) is responsible for delaying their father’s burial, asking “How can I be responsible for the delay? How do I bury my father when I don’t have the body?”
