Nollywood veteran actor, Victor Decker has been found dead in his apartment. He died at the age of 72.
Jesse Nazareth, the Mayor of the Actor Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Abuja who broke the news in a chat with Punch, said the actor was found lifeless by his neighbours yesterday.
According to Nazareth, Decker’s neighbours had to break down the door of his apartment before they found his lifeless decomposed body seated in his sitting room.
She further revealed that the corpse of the actor was rejected by several hospital because his body was already decomposing.
“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.
“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.
“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,” Nazareth was quoted as saying.