There are indications that victims of last Saturday's auto crash near
the old Ahoada Market Road along the Rivers State axis of the
East-West Road may be given mass burial.
The victims, all prominent female politicians from Bayelsa State, were
burnt in the fatal auto-crash, which threw the entire state into
mourning.
The decision to accord the victims mass burial, it was learned, was
reached with members of the families since the corpses were burnt
beyond recognition.
Vanguard further reports that the remains of the female politicians'
ashes and two unidentified skulls were conveyed to the morgue of the
Federal Medical Centre in Yenagoa by a team led by the former Deputy
Governor of the state and state coordinator of Transformation
Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN, Werinipre Seibarugu.
The decision for mass burial, a source close to a family of one of the
victims toldVanguard, was reached following the advice of a
pathologist.
According to the source, "the pathologist made it clear that
conducting a deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, test will take up to six
months to one year. This the families considered too long to bear."
The husband of one of the victims, Mr. Mathew Otolo, said in an
emotional voice that the families could not identify their loved one.
He said: "I could not believe that I cannot identify my beloved wife.
Where do I start from?"
Also speaking, Mr. Ambrose Ayebakuro, aged 33, son of the deceased
former House of Assembly member, Ruby Benjamin, confirmed that they
had been contacted that his mother and others would be given mass
burial.
Ayebakuro said: "She was everything to us. But I take solace in the
fact that she was close to God."
--Vanguard
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