Bodies of Three Slain Nigerian SSS Operatives in Alakyio Still in Mortuary
Written by Msugh Ityokura Lafia
Nigerian Guardian
BODIES of the three State Security Service (SSS) operatives slain in Alakyio village on May 10, 2013 are still lying unclaimed in the morgue at the Lafia Specialist Hospital.
Efforts of the parents and relatives to claim the corpses for a befitting burial have continued to prove abortive as the SSS authorities in Abuja are allegedly showing a lukewarm attitude towards conducting a forensic test on the bodies as requested by the parents so as to retrieve them for burial.
Father to one of the slain officers whose body is also lying at the mortuary, Dr. Nandul Durfa, a former medical director at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital expressed regrets that his efforts to get the corpse of his son released to him for burial are being thwarted for no just reason.
Speaking with The Guardian at the hospital premises at the weekend, Nandul wondered why the authorities are frustrating his personal efforts to carry out a forensic test on his son so that the family could bury and forge ahead with other challenges of life.
The attitude of the authorities he said “does not give confidence to any security operative in the country any more”
The non challant attitude of the concerned authorities he said is ‘killing’ the morale of colleagues of the slain operatives who are still in service as manifest in what is happening in the north eastern part of the country.
He alleged, “The soldiers on mission in Maiduguri are afraid of sticking out their necks because of the usual neglect by authorities in case of an accident in the battle field or even death as is with the case I am facing now.”
“Despite several letters” some of which were made available to The Guardian, “the authorities have not deemed it fit to allow for a forensic test to be carried out so I can get my late son’s corpses for a befitting burial” the bereaved father said in an emotional tone.
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| Nigerian Security Services personnel deployed to the northeast where a state of emergency is in effect. |
Nigerian Guardian
BODIES of the three State Security Service (SSS) operatives slain in Alakyio village on May 10, 2013 are still lying unclaimed in the morgue at the Lafia Specialist Hospital.
Efforts of the parents and relatives to claim the corpses for a befitting burial have continued to prove abortive as the SSS authorities in Abuja are allegedly showing a lukewarm attitude towards conducting a forensic test on the bodies as requested by the parents so as to retrieve them for burial.
Father to one of the slain officers whose body is also lying at the mortuary, Dr. Nandul Durfa, a former medical director at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital expressed regrets that his efforts to get the corpse of his son released to him for burial are being thwarted for no just reason.
Speaking with The Guardian at the hospital premises at the weekend, Nandul wondered why the authorities are frustrating his personal efforts to carry out a forensic test on his son so that the family could bury and forge ahead with other challenges of life.
The attitude of the authorities he said “does not give confidence to any security operative in the country any more”
The non challant attitude of the concerned authorities he said is ‘killing’ the morale of colleagues of the slain operatives who are still in service as manifest in what is happening in the north eastern part of the country.
He alleged, “The soldiers on mission in Maiduguri are afraid of sticking out their necks because of the usual neglect by authorities in case of an accident in the battle field or even death as is with the case I am facing now.”
“Despite several letters” some of which were made available to The Guardian, “the authorities have not deemed it fit to allow for a forensic test to be carried out so I can get my late son’s corpses for a befitting burial” the bereaved father said in an emotional tone.
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