Veteran Nigerian actor, Victor Decker, was found dead in his apartment
yesterday by his neighbours at about 5 pm.
The Mayor of the Actors Guild of Nigeria,
Abuja, Jesse Nazareth, in an exclusive chat with The PUNCH,
said Decker’s neighbours had to break down the door to his apartment before
they found his lifeless decomposed body seated in his sitting room.
However, the cause of his death is still unknown. Victor Decker died at 72.
Nazareth said, “Yes, Victor Decker is dead.
I am in the mortuary where they want to embalm him. I am not aware of the cause
of his death. I just got a call that his neighbours did not see him for days so
they got concerned. They went to his house, knocked on his door but got no
response so they had to break down the door. That was when they saw him sitting
on his chair lifeless. He was already smelling as he was decomposing. I rushed
down there to arrange the necessary things.”
She added that several hospitals rejected
the body of the late actor because it was already decomposing.
“I had to obtain a police report and cars to convey him to a hospital. I
took him to several hospitals but they rejected him because his body was
already decomposing. At about 3 am this morning, we were referred to a private
hospital in Bwari, Abuja, where they accepted his body. This morning, they are
embalming his body but they need to first reduce its size as he has swollen.”
Nazareth stated that the late actor’s
younger brother was with her, while the rest of his family would join them in
the hospital later today.
“His younger brother, Samson Decker, is
here with us. He cannot talk to the press at the moment because he is not in
the right frame of mind. Victor Decker was about 72 years old when he died.”
Decker starred in films like Double
Strings, If I am President and Lotanna.
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