True to YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine’s exclusive story, star actress and preacher, Eucharia Akunma Anunobi buried her only son, Raymond Joshua Chimaobi Chimnonso Ekwu today at the Ikoyi, Lagos cemetery – but with the boy’s father and her ex-husband, Charles Ekwu, visibly absent.
Eucharia and Charles had a turbulent marriage that was contracted in 2000 and was effective till 2006; producing just an offspring – the late Raymond who battled sickle cell till he died on August 23, 2017 at the age of 15. The former, as a matter of fact, had dragged the latter to court over what she termed abandonment, assault and irresponsibility. She didn’t stop there as she also asked the court to compel him to pay her a whooping sum of N100 million.
Charles, our investigations revealed, relocated to Europe after the collapse of their marriage and ever since totally turned his back on Eucharia and Raymond. Including shunning his burial on Tuesday, September 5, 2017.
The burial service which was moderated by some pastors from Fresh Oil Ministry International Church, where incidentally Eucharia is an evangelist, was however witnessed by some of her colleagues like Rita Dominic, Stephanie Linus, Ini Edo, Monalisa Chinda, Susan Patrick as well as some family members and fans.
Adorning an all-white ensemble, UK, like the actress who rose to prominence with her role in Glamour Girls is widely known, wept all through, soliloquizing intermittently, both prior and post interment.