Grieving Mother To CP: Provide My Murdered Son’s Corpse For Proper Burial

A grieving mother in Rivers State, Mrs Callister Ugiri, has called on the new State Commissioner of Police, CP Olatunji Disu to produce her murdered 27-year-old son’s corpse for proper burial

The deceased, Onyekachi Ugiri, was said to have caught a bullet in the head in front of the government house, Port Harcourt on October 31, during a solidarity protest for Governor Siminalayi Fubara at the wake of a foiled impeachment attempt against him by some lawmakers.

Mrs. Ugiri revealed that she had seen a video of her dead son in a pool of his blood in an uncompleted building, adding that she had afterward visited several hospitals and morgues in an attempt to recover his body, but to no avail.

Ugiri who is a food vendor, told Daily Independent on Friday that she doesn’t want to foment trouble for anyone over her son’s untimely death, but only seek to give her son a befitting burial.

She said, “I am begging the new commissioner of Police to tell his boys to give me my son’s corpse wherever they (Police) kept him because I have seen the video where they shot him with a bullet.

“So I am begging them (the Police) to give me the dead body, let me go and bury him. I have gone to different hospitals, and mortuaries to look for him, but I can’t find him.

“On the 31st of October was the day my son went to the protest of the new Governor. Since then, they shot him with a gun, I saw the video of his dead body.

“I don’t want any problem, I am not making any case, nobody is supporting me, I don’t have anyone, all I need is for the Police to give me the dead body and let me bury him myself.

“Please, Commissioner, give the order or anything you can do to help me please do it, I’m a poor woman. I sell mama put (food vendor),” she added.

Meanwhile, the former state Commissioner of Police, CP Nwonyi Emeka, in a press briefing on November 3, denied Mrs. Ugiri’s accusations that her son was hit by a bullet fired by the Police, saying that the Police didn’t shoot anybody on the day of protest, let alone seeing any dead body.