Veteran Actress, Ebele Okaro, buries husband amidst tears

• The veteran actress extraordinaire, Ebele Okaro, has said her last goodbye to her dearly departed husband, Anyi Okaro.
• This solemn ceremony unfolded on the momentous date of August 11, 2023, and the visual and video snippets from the event swiftly made the rounds.
• A number of Nigerian celebrities including Rita Edochie, stormed the event to show support for Ebele Okaro

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Nollywood Veteran, Ebele Okaro, has bid a final farewell to her departed husband, the late Mr. Anyi Okaro, whose spirit transcended in the month of July.

On August 11, 2023, a burial ceremony was thrown for him and some of Ebele Okaro’s family members, friends and well wishers showed up at the event.

Ebele Okaro and her children are captured in viral video appearing downcast and somber, adorned in white attire, while the priest leads the proceedings of the burial ceremony.

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Ebele Okaro’s close friend and colleague, Rita Edochie, graced the funeral ceremony with her presence.

Posting a video of the interment event on her Instagram page, Rita Edochie highlighted that fellow colleagues of the actress turned out in solidarity to offer condolences and stand by her side as she navigates the profound loss of her husband.

She shared the video with the caption, “We turned up at Nimo to sympathise with our sister Ebele Okaro Onyiuke during the burial of her husband anyi Henry Onyiuke as well as her mother-in-law.”

Ebele Okaro announced the demise of her husband in a post via her Instagram page on Saturday, 29, July.

The 59-year-old actress shared a photo of the deceased with an emotional caption in Igbo language that reads ‘Adieu Ezigbu Dim’ (goodbye my good husband).

Ebele also in the social media post shared, reminisced on the adorable virtues of her husband while he was still alive.

She wrote: “Don’t think of him as gone away his journey’s just begun, life holds so many facets this earth is only one. Just think of him as resting from the sorrows and the tears in a place of warmth and comfort. where there are no days and years.”