Forensic pathologists from the University College
Hospital, Ibadan, and Nigeria Police from Abuja began exhuming bodies
of some victims of the Soka kidnappers den inside the horror forest
yesterday.
According to Osundefender newsmen, the three different teams that was
found present are: we have the Oyo Police team, led by the Assistant
Commissioner of Police, CID, Dasuki Galadachi; we have the CID from
Force headquarters led by Babale Aminu with four others, including a
forensic pathologist, Dr. Eze Nwom, who led the team of pathologists,
with an anthropologist. And professor, Dr. Olawoyin from the UCH, who is
also with them, deals with anything about the throat to the head. As
they were sent there by the Inspector General of Police.
Before now, there have been heavy rumour that some victims were still trapped underground.
“How
can a human being survive underground for more than three weeks without
food or drink? Where will they get power to charge the phone people
have been saying someone was calling with? It is a mere rumour and
figment of their imagination. People should not carry rumours that will
have psychological effects on families of missing people,” the Superintendent of Police Olabisi Ilobanafor, the Public Relations Officer of Oyo State Command said dismissively.
He further stated that, “The forensic experts
would exhume some bodies today that had been buried for forensic
analysis. The analysis would also help those whose relations are missing
to do test so that anybody whose relatives might have been declared
missing could go for forensic test so that it could assist in
determining whether they are related to any of the dead.”
“Today is the final stage of the exercise as police from Oyo had
earlier visited and carried out series of investigations. After this, we
shall be handing over the place to the state government who knows what
else to be done with it. Some of the items collected by the experts were
clothes, mats, plates, bottles, metals and any other physical thing
seen in the den,” he concluded.
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