It was a night of sober and weeping as friends of late Chika Anaebom popularly known as Chika Malaysia converged at De Latinos lounge in Umuahia Abia State capital on Saturday night to hold a candlelight service in his honour.
ABN TV reports that the 39-year-old was killed in Thailand last year and will be laid to rest on July 13.
Friends and well-wishers gave good testimonies of the late Anaebom and how his life was impactful.
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Top celebrities, including Real Estate Mogul, OAPs, actors, actresses and musicians etc, were at the candlelight service.
His Malaysian wife, first son, and family members also graced the event.
A burial arrangement released by Chief John Nwokoria on behalf of his family says the late Anaebom would be buried in his family compound Avutu Obowo local government area of Imo State.
There will be a service of songs in his honour on Wednesday, July 12 at his family compound from 6pm till dawn.
On Thursday, July 13 a funeral service will take place in his honour at 12noon after which he will be laid to rest.
He was killed with a Vietnamese woman last year and buried in a shallow grave in northeastern Thailand.
Police forensics investigators identified the bodies of the two victims.
A wild mushroom harvester discovered their bodies in a forest at Chok Chai district in Nakhon Ratchasima on the evening of July 28, 2022.
The man noticed a fresh pile of earth covered with branches about 500 metres off Highway 224. The village head and other residents went to check it out.
They dug into the soil and quickly stopped when they uncovered part of a human body.
Police were called to the scene and rescue workers dug deeper, uncovering the bodies of a man and a woman buried less than one metre down.
Village headman Thepbancha Saikrathok said the woman’s body was above the man’s body in the grave, and each was mostly covered with a layer of cement.
The two bodies were taken to Chok Chai Hospital for full post-mortem examination to support the investigation and identification
On Thursday, August 4, Nakhon Ratchasima police said the serial number of the Vietnamese woman’s silicone breast implants and Anaebom’s fingerprint assisted in identifying them.
Authorities in Thailand have however heeded to the appeal by Mr. Anaebom’s family to hand over his corpse to them.
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