Mortuary Gives Family Unknown Body On Burial Day, As Corpse Goes Missing In Midst Of Claims Mistaken Identity

Lets us imagine the scenario…all funeral arrangement in place, everybody set for the final farewell and the mortuary brings out the body of an unknown corpse in a disheartening case of mistaken identity!

That was what happened to the family of late Ayoka Buhari.

According to information sourced from Punch ‘Everything was set for the burial of 55-year-old Mrs. Ayoka Buhari, who had died after a brief illness, in the Mowe area of Ogun State.

The wake had held, the burial ground had been prepared as friends and bereaved family members gathered for her interment in the family compound on Thursday. Ayoka Buhari

But as the family approached the management of the TOS Funerals, which manages a morgue in the Gbagada General Hospital, for the corpse around 8am, the body could not be found.’

The paper went on to report in full ‘PUNCH Metro learnt that the corpse had been mistakenly swapped for another.

A relative, Folorunsho Adeoluwa, expressed sadness over the incident, threatening legal action against the owners of the morgue.

Adeoluwa said the mother of four had died on Wednesday, October 14, and was taken to the morgue.

He said, “The family was asked to come for the corpse at 8.30am today (Thursday), but when we got there, we discovered that they were not ready for us. Later, they said the woman’s husband must show up before they release her corpse.

“Her daughter, however, insisted on seeing the corpse. They brought out a corpse and she raised the alarm that it was not her mother.”

Our correspondent was told that after much enquiries, a worker in the morgue, identified as Femi, explained that there was a problem of mistaken identity.

He was said to have told the family that the corpse was wrongly tagged and given to another man, who lost his wife.’