Police Arrest Mortician Over Stolen Corpse Of SAN In Enugu

Enugu State Police
Command has arrested a mortician in charge of the Christ Specialist Hospital, Enugu, from where the corpse of Chief Theodere Ezeobi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN) was reportedly stolen last Thursday.
Some unknown persons were said to have broken into the mortuary and forcefully removed the corpse of the legal practitioner who passed on four months ago.
He hailed from Osikwu village, Awgbu in Orumba North local government area of Anambra State.
The Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, Confirmed this to newsmen that the mortician on duty when the corpse was stolen, was already being interrogated with a view to ascertain how the corpse disappeared from the morgue.
“It is a true story that the corpse of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria afrom  Anambra State disappeared from a hospital in Enugu and we are investigating the matter now.
“The Mortician on duty that morning is in our custody and he is helping us in our investigations” he said.
However, Vanguard learnt that the corpse may have been taken somewhere in Anambra State for the burial which was scheduled for last Thursday.
The funeral, which was well advertised  was however, aborted as security operatives were said to have stormed the village in search of those in possession of the controversial corpse.