Eighty Year Old Woman Corpse Missing In Ebonyi
By Joyce Aroh
There was pandemonium in Owutu Edda, Afikpo South Local Government Area, Ebonyi State following the disappearance of the corpse of a eighty year old woman, Madam Grace Orji okoro where it was deposited on the day of her burial ceremony.
It was gathered that on the date of the burial on 28th of December last month, sympathizers and relations converged on various canopies at the deceased compound and were singing only for news to filter in that the corpse was missing in the mortuary where her body was deposited.
The brother of the deceased, Pastor Fred Okoro who informed the newsmen that he got the shock of his life when the family members went to collect the remains of their sister on the burial day, only to discover that a different corpse was kept in the morgue for them.
The deceased brother said that Late Madam Grace Orji Okoro died on 2nd of July, 2021 and her corpse was deposited in the mortuary located at the premises of General Hospital Owutu Edda in Afikpo South Local Government Area on the same day.
The brother of the deceased, Pastor Fred Okoro further alleged that after the deposit was made and several efforts also made by family members to see the condition of the corpse were allegedly frustrated by the morticians as they always claimed that the morgue was fumigated.
“It dawned on us that they presented strange corpse to us on the date fixed for the burial
“The corpse presented to us was not ours because my sister is tall about 6ft tall and we discovered that the person was short. Not only that, my sister plaited hair that fell down on her shoulder at the time of death but this one has a low cut hair”
According to daughter of the deceased, who is a Naval Officer, Welsie Okoro, she described the development as unbelievable noting that when they dragged the morticians to Owutu Police Station, they claimed that they mistakenly handed her mother’s corpse to another family for burial.
Pastor Okoro further alleged that they suspected foul play as those alleged to have mistaken his sister’s corpse for theirs had refuted the allegation.
” It was discovered that those people deposited a body in May where as my sister was deposited in July 2nd”
The Manager of the Mortuary, Mr Vincent Ude said he was doing everything possible to recover the corpse.