Police Yet To Release Sam Loco's Corpse To Family

Imo State Police Command, yesterday, said it was determined to unravel what killed the ace actor, Mr. Sam Loco Efe, in Rapour Hotel, Owerri, last Sunday.

The Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, who spoke to Vanguard, said: “We are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the ace Nollywood actor in his hotel room in Owerri.www.mannastores.com


The man attained a national and international status and we are duty bound to get all the details of the matter.”

Meanwhile, friends and family members of the Nollywood actor  have decried the delay in releasing his corpse to them by the police.

A family member, yesterday told Vanguard, that the police had shifted the blame for the delay on logistics, adding that they were  insisting  on carrying out autopsy to ascertain the cause of the actor’s death.

Similarly,  Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, has described Sam Loco’s death as “a great loss to the entertainment industry, Enugu State and Nigeria at large.”