By Ighomuaye Lucky. O
There was palpable tension in Umuezibe, Obingwa area, along the Aba/Ikot Ekpene highway in Abia State, following a surprise discovery by relations of a deceased young man that his testicles were missing in a mortuary his remains were kept.
The situation led to the destruction of the mortuary and near lynching of its workers.
The deceased, whose name was simple known as Chimaobi, in his twenties, was allegedly electrocuted while working on high tension electricity cables in Abayi Okorator, in the same area were his corpse were kept in the mortuary, pending burial.
However, things got out of control, when youths from his (the deceased) community went to retrieve his corpse only to discover that his genitals were missing from the body they were being shown by the attendants who thereafter, tried to escape but got apprehended.
The situation got so tensed that relations of dead persons whose bodies were deposited in the mortuary quickly came to remove them either for immediate burial or to other locations, as the youths insisted on destroying the facility.
Eyewitness account said that a quick intervention of the police in Eastern Ngwa, saved the mortuary attendants who were said to have been taken into custody.
A senior police source in the area, said the situation was under control, though he didn’t speak further on the issue.
