Ogun Crash Update: OOU Students Storm Mortuary, Snatch Corpses

Pandemonium enveloped the premises of the
Ade
Maternity Home, Sagamu, Ogun State on
Saturday as
scores of grieving students of the Olabisi
Onabanjo
University forcefully removed the corpses of their
colleagues who were killed in a crash the
previous
day from the hospital’s morgue.
Our correspondent gathered that the
management of
the hospital had wanted to collect N20,000 per
corpse before the corpses could be released to
their
families.
This was said to have angered the students who
stormed the private hospital’s morgue and
evacuated
their dead colleagues forcefully without paying a
dime, and moved them to the morgue of the
Olabisi
Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.
The police had a hectic time trying to keep the
students under control.
Head of the teaching hospital’s Morbid Anatomy
and
Histopathology Department, Dr Deji Agboola, said
the corpses were traced to Ade Maternity Home
their colleagues had combed private morgues in
Sagamu.
He confirmed that the angry students did not
yield to
the demand for payment by the hospital before
the
corpses of their colleagues were released to
them.
A source at the hospital also confirmed that the
corpses had been taken away.
The Ogun State police command on Saturday
said
eight students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University,
Ago Iwoye, were among the 12 victims of the
accident
which occurred on Friday at Ilishan Junction,
along
Sagamu/Benin Expressway.
In the accident, 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 victims were five females and seven males.
The state police spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi,
told
our correspondent on the telephone on Saturday
that
eight students of OOU were among the victims.
Giving further details, he said three of them were
pre-degree students, while the only survivor is a
300-
level Chemistry student of the institution.