The Federal government has announced March 17th and 18th as the dates picked by the Ocholi family for the burial rites of former Minister of State for Labor and Employment, James Ocholi, his wife and son, who died in a fatal accident on March 6th. 


The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babacir Lawal, announced the dates at the Federal Executive Council's valedictory session held for Ocholi today March 9th.

The Service of songs would hold on March 17th at the International Conference Centre Abuja by 7 pm after which the body of James Ocholi, his wife, Blessing, and son, Joshua, would depart the National Hospital Abuja on March 17th for his home town, Dekina, in Kogi state where a wake-keeping would take place. Internment would take place on March 18 by 12 noon in Dekina.