According to a report by Sun News, a mammoth crowd of sympathizers on Saturday witnessed the burial of Sunday Joshua, the security guard allegedly beaten to death on May 26 at New Trafford Hotels and Suites at Gwalameji in Bauchi over a missing phone.
The burial was attended by well-known clergy, Archbishop Charles Yohanna, a member of Bauchi State House of Assembly representing Bogoro Constituency, Honourable Musa Nakwada, family, friends and sympathizers.
Joshua’s remains were brought from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, to the Christian Cemetery at Yelwa in a procession by the Boys’ Brigade at about 10:21 am. The Brigade rendered soul touching songs with trumpets, bands at the background as they carried Joshua’s corpse for final interment.
The deceased mother, Urfa Joshua, could not be consoled as she wept while the coffin was lowered to mother earth.
In his homily at the funeral, Rev Evans Bingila, of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (LCCN II), Yelwa, harped on forgiveness urging family and friends of the deceased particularly the youth not to take the laws into their hands by breaking the law in trying to ‘avenge’ Sunday’s murder.