Two family almost threw blows at each other at the Lekan Ogunsola memorial Morgue of the Lagos State University Teaching hospital, Ikeja on monday over corpse from the Dana crash.
The family of late Mr Jones Ifekanwa were invited by the Chief Medical examiner, Pro. John Obafunwa to identify their late brother's corpse but found if difficult to re-identify the body as they did last week. When another family went to look for their relation's body, the picked the same body as the Ifekanwa family had picked.
A fight almost started between both family but for the intervention of the security men at the mortuary.
The elder sister to the late Ifekanwa, Mrs. Jennifer Enanana said “My brother was identified at the crash site. He wasn’t burnt. He had his identity card with him and some other documents in his pockets; with that, they identified him. So this morning, they took us in and they wrapped him up as if it was a gift pack, showing just his face not his ears, not his head. Can you imagine? And we were telling them that this is our brother whom we have identified. He has a mark on his lips and on his forehead; it is just a unique feature of him and all that. Could you believe that another family went inside and identified the same Jones’s body? A body that has been identified by them and confirmed by us twice! That means they did not store the bodies properly; that means there is something fishy going on.”
For further clarification, Obafunwa denied both families access to the body until the DNA testing results would be out in the next four weeks.
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