The casket containing the remains of renowned emeritus professor of literature and poet, Professor John Pepper Clark, has arrived his home in Kiagbodo Town, Delta State, for burial.
Late JP Clark’s corpse landed Kiagbodo main town at about 8:48pm before being conveyed in a wooden boat to his house at JP Clark Creek Inland in the outskirt of the community.
The brown casket was carried by community youths from the Delta State Government Ambulance that brought the literary icon from the Asaba International Airport.
His body is now laid for a lying-in-state at his compound waiting to be interred.
There is no official ceremony being held in his honour.
The children said their father does not want Christian or traditional burial ceremony.
