Woman wants autopsy on daughter who died in dad’s custody
Awoman, Mrs Mary Bamlong, has demanded an independent autopsy to ascertain the cause of the death her daughter, Irene Naanswan Bamlong, who she said was staying with her exhusband, Dr Nicholas Daboaer, in Gwagwalada, Abuja.
Daily Trust learnt that Dr Daboaer is the outgoing chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee (CMAN) of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), Gwagwalada.
Mrs Bamlong, while speaking with our reporter in Gwagwalada yesterday, said she was yet to be convinced about the cause of the death of her daughter.
She claimed that since she separated with her husband over 11 years ago he had denied her and all her relations access to their four children.
She said, “I received a phone call from my immediate younger brother that one of my daughters staying with my ex-husband was sick, and upon enquiry, I was told that my daughter was dead and was in the mortuary at the specialist hospital.”
She further said she immediately left Nasarawa State where she was receiving treatment and rushed to the hospital’s mortuary but was denied access to see her daughter’s corpse, and that she proceeded to report at the police station in the area, demanding an independent autopsy to ascertain the cause of her daughter’s death.
Mrs Bamlong said, “As I am talking to you right now, I have informed my lawyer about it as I want an autopsy to be conducted to know the real cause of my daughter’s death.”
When contacted
through telephone, Dr Daboaer said since his ex-wife has reported the matter to the police and it is under investigation, our reporter should wait for the outcome of the investigation.
Our reporter insisted that there was need to hear from him in order to balance the story but he replied that “when the investigation is concluded, I am sure you will hear from me whatever it is; but I will advise that if you want to speak with me, you to create time to see me as I am bereaved and not in the good mood to talk now. This is not the right time to talk.”
The Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Ministerial Task Force on City Sanitation, Mr Ikharo Attah, has said the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has mandated the task force to do a total cleanup of Mpape area of the FCT.
The task force had penultimate week carried out demolition in Mpape, a sprawling slum opposite Maitama District, off the AYAKubwa Expressway.
Mr Attah, in a statement issued on Sunday, said the demolition exercise would continue, stressing that only 25 per cent of the cleanup exercise had been done.
He urged residents who want to embark on any construction or adjustment work to wait until the operation was over.
He stated that whoever was developing any project in Mpape must go to the FCT Department of Development Control to certify the work and get approval before proceeding.
He said, “We have not gotten to 25 per cent of the total cleanup operation we are supposed to do, but sadly, while we spent the whole of last week doing evaluation of the entirety of the work done across the city, as well as going on surveillance inspection, what we saw at Mpape was not looking good at all. Some persons assumed that we are not going to resume demolition, some even peddled rumours that the task force has been disbanded by the FCT minister.
“If you look at Mpape now, the enormity of illegality that is coming up there is multidimensional. The mobile shanties and massive return of umbrella or canopy markets, particularly in the evening, is not good at all.”