OOU Students Angrily Storm Mortuary To Snatch Corpses Of Their School Mates

Scores of grieving students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University have stormed Ade Maternity Home, Sagamu, Ogun State on Saturday to forcefully remove the corpses of their colleagues, who were killed in a crash the previous day, from the hospital’s morgue.

What angered the students was that the hospital management insisted on collecting N20,000 for each corpse before releasing it to the families.

This made the students storm the private hospital’s morgue, forcefully evacuating their dead colleagues without paying a dime, and moved them to the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.

The police tried to no avail to keep the students calm.

Head of the teaching hospital’s Morbid Anatomy and Histopathology Department, Dr Deji Agboola, said the corpses were traced to Ade Maternity Home after their colleagues had combed private morgues in Sagamu and forcefully evacuated them.

On Friday, eight OOUstudents were among the 12 victims of an accident which occurred at Ilishan Junction, along Sagamu/Benin Expressway, where a DAF truck with number plate BDG 779 XE laden with container had a head-on collision with a Mazda commercial bus with number plate XV 311 MUS, killing 12 occupants in the bus instantly.

The Ogun state police spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirming the incident said that eight students of OOU were among the 12 victims (five females and seven males).

Going further, he said three of them were pre-degree students, while the only survivor is a 300-level Chemistry student of the institution.

*Original reportage by Punch rewritten here *

Violence solves nothing,I wonder when students will learn this!