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From James Ogala,
Lagos
A 62-year-old man, Shuaibu
Atanda, who earn a living
from carrying unclaimed dead
bodies from the Morbid
Anatomy Department, Lagos
University Teaching
Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba,
Lagos has been nabbed by the
Lagos State Police Command.
Speaking with journalists in
Lagos, the spokesman of the
command, Mr. Frank Mba, a
Superintendent of Police,
said that the suspect was
arrested by the police for
being in possession of over
50 corpses.
Mba told journalists that
the suspect was arrested
along Agboowa Road near
Idi-Araba.
The Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), also
disclosed that the suspect
was actually contracted to
carry the dead bodies from
the Morbid Anatomy
Department, Lagos University
Teaching Hospital, LUTH to
Atam cemetery.
The suspect who was paraded
before journalists said that
he earns his living from
carrying dead bodies from
the Morbid Anatomy
Department, to bury at Atam
cemetery.
He said the contract usually
fetch him about N200,000
adding that after bribing
the head of Morbid Anatomy
Department and other
officials, he was left with
little amount of money,
hence, he decided to risk
carrying the dead bodies and
buried them in the bush
instead of Atan cemetery,
before he was arrested by
the police.
He claimed that he has been
in this business for the
past seven years and this is
the first time he was being
arrested by the police.
Speaking with journalists
after the suspect had been
paraded; the Head of
Department of Morbid
Anatomy, (a professor - name
withheld), said that all
officials mentioned would be
investigated saying that
anybody found wanting would
be handed over to the
police.
She claimed that she was not
aware of the bribe until the
suspect was arrested adding
that Atanda was given the
contract but not to deposit
the dead bodies in the bush.
The police, Mba said would
be working with the
management of LUTH to
establish these allegations
after which anybody found
wanting would be charged to
court.
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