A mild drama occurred in the Mowe area of Ogun State as the corpse of a 55-year-old woman, Mrs Ayoka Buhari went missing from the mortuary.
It was learnt that the 55-year-old’s corpse was discovered missing on Thursday by the bereaved family after every burial rite has been performed and it was time for the final internment.
Punch reports that the bereaved family approached the management of TOS Funerals, which manages a morgue in the Gbagada General Hospital at about 8am only to be told that the corpse had been mistakenly swapped for another.
Speaking on the incident, a family member of the deceased, Folorunsho Adeoluwa, threatened to take up legal action against the owners of the morgue.
Adeoluwa who expressed sadness over the development said the mother of four was deposited at the mortuary following her death on October 14.
He said, “The family was asked to come for the corpse at 8.30am today (Thursday), but when we got there, we discovered that they were not ready for us. Later, they said the woman’s husband must show up before they release her corpse.
“Her daughter, however, insisted on seeing the corpse. They brought out a corpse and she raised the alarm that it was not her mother.”
According to the report, a staff of the morgue identified as Femi, after much said the missing corpse was as a result of mistaken identity, adding that the corpse was wrongly tagged and given to another man, who lost his wife.
Following this revelation, the family of the deceased were said to have rushed down to Matori, Mushin, to meet the man who was suspected to have taken the corpse only to be told on getting there that the corpse had been buried.
“The man said he had buried his wife and he could not exhume her body unless the family showed him the picture of the corpse they have in the mortuary.
“We all rushed back to the morgue and took a picture of the corpse that the hospital wanted to give us. The woman’s husband has not returned from the place,” Adeoluwa said.
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