Right days after it should have been buried, Cynthia Osokogu’s body is still lying in a controversy.
The remains were to be interred in Bebe, Ovia Agbor, in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State last Friday, but the ceremony was postponed because the body was not available. The police said the body would be released to the family after an autopsy had been conducted.
Cynthia was allegedly killed by her Facebook friends Okwuoma Echezona Nwabufo, 33 and Ezekiel Odera Olisa, 23, who have been charged with her murder.
The controversy over her body deepened yesterday, with the police and TOS Funeral Services morgue at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), making conflicting statements on the conduct of the autopsy. Sources at the morgue wondered why the family has not come for the body, which is said to have been examined by pathologists.
"Cynthia's body has been transferred to the Lekan Ogunshola Memorial Mortuary and it is ready for collection. The mortuary is awaiting her family members to come and collect her remains for burial," a source said.
But the police yesterday insisted that they were awaiting the autopsy report.
They said the body would not be released to the family until the report is out.
The Area Commander in charge of Area 'E', Command FESTAC Town, Mr Dan Okoro, told The Nation that the body would not be released until the autopsy result is out.
"The autopsy result is not out yet. We will release the body as soon as the autopsy result is out," Okoro said.
Meanwhile, residents of Sixth Avenue, FESTAC Town, where one of the suspects, Okumo Nwabufor lived before his arrest over Cynthia's death are denying knowledge of his life style.
Nwabufor's real residence is said to be at A1 Close, First Avenue, and not Sixth Avenue as he claimed when he was paraded on August 22.
The house where he lived before his arrest is in a secluded part of FESTAC Town.
The compound has six houses, three on each side. The one Nwabufor lived is a twin duplex, the first house on the right side, on entering the street. At the end of the close is a wide canal with a short demarcating fence, where a church is.
When The Nation got there to make enquiry, residents denied knowing Nwabufor. They directed our reporters to another place.
All enquiries led back to A1 Close, and when our reporters went back, they met hostile neighbours. The pastor of a church near the house was approached, but a woman who was eavesdropping on the conversation flared up.
The woman asked our reporters' to leave immediately or incur her wrath.
"Please go, just go. Stop disturbing us. What information are you looking for?" she kept shouting.
A security guard in one of the houses under construction in the area said Nwabufor is reclusive. He said not much was known about him, until the police came to arrest him.
via The Nation
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news/61462-cynthia-s-body-remains-in-morgue.html
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