The family of late Bamise Ayanwale, who died after boarding a Bus Rapid Transit vehicle cried out after the Mainland Hospital Mortuary, Yaba, demanded N500,000 to release the deceased’s corpse.
The brother of the deceased, Pelumi Ayanwale said that the money was payment for the period when his late sister’s body remained in the hospital’s morgue.
“The head of the mortuary attendants at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, called my elder brother, Oluwatobi, to inform him that nobody had been coming to check on her corpse and nobody had paid anything after the autopsy was carried out.
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“The person said the bills were accumulating and demanded that we come. My brother asked if we were the ones they should be calling for that. My brother later went to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, to verify why they said we should be paying when we were not the one that brought her corpse to that place.
“At Panti, we were told that after the autopsy was carried out, the responsibility was on us and that it was no longer under their care and that our family was to be paying the bill. My brother went to the mortuary to collect the bill and the amount as of two weeks ago was N499,200. But the money is over N500,000 now,”Pelumi said.
He added that the government is obliged to sponsoring her burial because she was allegedly killed by a state-owned commercial bus.
Bamise went missing after she boarded a BRT vehicle from Chevron Bus Stop, Ajah to Oshodi around 7pm on Saturday, February 26 2022.
Her lifeless body was found by the roadside on Carter Bridge, Lagos Island, as the driver of the vehicle, Nice Omininikoron, was arrested and arraigned for murder.