Police investigating the death of a young nurse at the country home of Works Minister David Umahi say they are still waiting on her family before a post-mortem examination can go ahead, even as they insist the procedure is essential to the case.
In a statement issued Wednesday, Ebonyi State Police spokesperson SP, Joshua Ukandu said the command received a distress call on June 27 from the Divisional Police Officer in Ohaozara, alerting them to a medical emergency involving 26-year-old Mary Habila at the David Umahi Federal Teaching Hospital in Uburu.
When officers arrived, hospital staff told them Habila had already been brought in dead.
The Commissioner of Police was briefed and ordered the case transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for full investigation.
Preliminary findings, police said, showed Habila and a colleague, Anita Baaki, were part of a medical team attached to Umahi and had travelled with him to his hometown in Uburu, where Habila was found dead in a room within his residential compound.
Detectives have since visited the scene and taken statements from those involved, and the command says it is now arranging for a pathologist to carry out a post-mortem to help establish the cause of death.
According to police, Habila's family has declined the request for an autopsy, insisting the examination should not go ahead.
The command says it disagrees, maintaining that given the sensitivity of the case, a post-mortem remains necessary to establish what really happened, and that it will not proceed without the family or their representative present.
Police have pledged a thorough, transparent and impartial investigation and say further updates will follow as the case develops.
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