Police Order Owner Of Popular Kitchen To Exhume Employee’s Corpse

• Police Order Owner Of Calabar Kitchen To Exhume Manager’s Secretly Buried Corpse.
• Who Killed 41 Year Old Manager At Calabar Kitchen?

Ekohotblog reports that the Police from the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, have ordered Mrs. Patricia Akpan, owner of the popular Calabar Kitchen and hotel on Allen Avenue, to exhume the body of his manager, Emmanuel Peter Udokang, whom she allegedly buried without informing his wife and children.

Ekohotbblog gathered that the death of late Emmanuel on September 10, 2021, created controversy since his grieving widow, Mrs. Rosemary Peter, has said that she holds the management of Calabar Kitchen accountable for her husband’s death.

The embittered wife stated that her husband died and she was not informed rather Mrs. Akpan kept the corpse in the mortuary and later went to their village to bury him while she was still in Lagos with their children.

She is seeking to know the reason for his death as determined by an autopsy report, therefore the Police order to Mrs. Akpan to go and fetch the corpse back to Lagos from his village in Akwa Ibom State.

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The late Emmanuel Udokang, who had spent virtually his whole working life with the firm on Allen Avenue in Ikeja Lagos, reportedly died on their premises after entertaining an unidentified female guest.

Following the circumstances of the death, Police detectives from the Homicide Department at Panti, Yaba, Lagos, have commenced an investigation and summoned the owner of Calabar Kitchen for questioning over the death.

The embattled widow stated that she dated the late Emmanuel for about three years before they eventually got married in 2004 and had been working with Calabar Kitchen before their eventual marriage.

On why she was suspecting foul play, she stated that the manner they hid the news from her initially and the unwillingness of the employers to actually find out or tell them what killed her husband gave rise to the suspicion that he may have died an unnatural death and wants to know the cause.

She said that when he died, they took his phone and luggage, and the corpse was hidden inside his Toyota Camry before being brought to General Hospital without telling her or the children, the eldest of whom is 16 years old.

Mrs. Patricia Akpan was not detained after the event was reported to the police at Area F Command in Ikeja, according to her, and the case was forwarded to the SCID for further investigation.

She stated that she was asked what she wanted at SCID, and she told them she wanted to know the cause of her husband’s death, thus the order to transport his body back to Lagos.

A staff of Calabar Kitchen who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity said that it was the first time he saw Master going upstairs.

“Master never go to upstairs before since I’ve been working here.

“The next thing wey we take hear na shout of ‘Master! Master !!’ before dey call me say make I come”.

The source added that he was told by the other workers that they found master’s body next to the unidentified lady on the floor and carried him out to a car, however; he was confirmed dead at General Hospital Ikeja Lagos.

“Him belle don strong as at that time wey carry ham go hospital”, he added.

Up till now, there are no clear indications who the so-called was, and Mrs Rosemary, weeping told our reporters that that was not her only shock:

-the death for whatever reason, was withheld from her, even when she rushed down to the office earlier.

-The mark on her husband’s corpse was not there before

-Mrs Patricia Isidok Akpan made arrangement with the deceased’s half brother, Ebong Peter Udokang, embalmed the body and conveyed the corpse to Akwa Ibom State that same day without informing her and the children in Lagos.

-that Mrs Isidok withheld her husband’s ATM cards, phones, bags and some other properties, and that even when the phone was eventually released, there were no messages in both text and whatSapp on the phone, and that the call logs were empty.

-And that her husband allegedly died at 2pm on 10 September but that she was only allowed to see his corpse by 8pm already embalmed.

When contacted Mrs. Patricia Akpan’s phone was switched off but sources said that she was making every effort to exhume the corpse and bring it back to Lagos for autopsy report.