{"id":115998,"date":"2024-04-15T11:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police"},"modified":"2024-04-15T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:43:17","slug":"junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police","title":{"rendered":"Junior Pope not buried by river bank \u2013 Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Anambra State Police Command says the remains of Nollywood star, John Paul Odonwodo, popularly called Junior Pope, were not among those buried by the bank of the Anam River.<\/p>\n<p>The Command\u2019s spokesman, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, made the clarification on Sunday, stating that only three of the deceased families agreed that the victims be buried by the riverside.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that after the burial of the three, one of the families came back to exhume the remains of their daughter for a befitting burial in her country home.<\/p>\n<p>Ikenga added that the corpse of Junior Pope was deposited at a morgue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Command, on an inquiry about the unconfirmed information that the recovered bodies including Junior Pope were buried by the Riverside where the boat accident happened, discovered that three of the deceased families accepted the victims should be buried beside the river.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut later, the family of one of the victims decided to exhume the body to be given a proper burial in her state while the other two were still buried there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, Junior Pope and one other are still in the morgue and await the deceased families\u2019 funeral arrangements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The PPRO further stated that the Command is still investigating the unfortunate incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe producer of the movie and the two boat drivers\u2019 statements have been obtained, and other necessary actions\/moves already emplaced by the operatives as directed by the Commissioner of Police to determine the criminal liability of any person, if any, in the mishap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Anambra State Police Command says the remains of Nollywood star, John Paul Odonwodo, popularly called Junior Pope, were not among those buried by the bank of the Anam River. The Command\u2019s spokesman, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, made the clarification on Sunday, stating that only three of the deceased families agreed that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":115997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,13237,254,165],"class_list":["post-115998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-junior-pope","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Junior Pope not buried by river bank \u2013 Police - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Anambra State Police Command says the remains of Nollywood star, John Paul Odonwodo, popularly called Junior Pope, w ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Junior Pope not buried by river bank \u2013 Police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Anambra State Police Command says the remains of Nollywood star, John Paul Odonwodo, popularly called Junior Pope, w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-15T10:23:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-15T12:43:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/sm_1713168534.859429.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"706\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Junior Pope not buried by river bank \u2013 Police\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-15T10:23:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-15T12:43:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police\"},\"wordCount\":274,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/sm_1713168534.859429.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Junior Pope\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/junior-pope-not-buried-by-river-bank-police\",\"name\":\"Junior Pope not buried by river bank \u2013 Police - 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