The 11 female Bayelsa politicians who died in an
auto crash on Saturday near the Old Ahoada
Market road along the East-West road of Rivers
state will be given mass burial due to the inability
of relations to recognize their burnt remains and
with expert pathologists saying a DNA test would
take up to six months, further prolonging the
psychological torture of deceased families, and
advising that a mass burial would be a better
option.
Members of the families have also agreed to this
decision.
Rt. Hon Seibarugu Werinipre, former deputy
governor to Timipre Sylva and state coordinator of
Transformation Ambassador of Nigeria (TAN) led
the team that conveyed the ashes and unidentified
skulls of the 11 female politicians conveyed to the
morgue of the Federal Medical Centre in Yenagoa,
yesterday.
Husband of one of the victims and staff of the State
Broadcasting Corporation, Mathew Utolor, told
journalists that the families could not identify their
loved one. “I could not believe that I cannot
identify my wife,” he said.
Ambrose Ayebakuro, the 33-year old son of the
deceased former House of Assembly member, Hon.
Ruby Benjamin, confirmed that they had been
contacted that a mass burial would be conducted
for the victims. “She was everything to us. But I
take solace in the fact that she was close to God.”
Bayelsa state governor, Seriake Dickson has paid
a condolence visit to the Secretary to State
Government, Prof. Edmund Alison-Oguru over the
death of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Oguru, who was
also a victim of the crash.
Dickson described the incident as a tragic one,
which claimed the lives of female politicians in the
state, saying the news of the untimely death of the
women came to him as a rude shock, while
describing the incident as a painful and terrible
blow to the state.
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