The family of one Anita Chinwedu has accused a Lagos fast food joint and the police of hiding the truth about the real cause of death of their only daughter, even as the corpse of the deceased is yet to be delivered to them, since the lady was claimed to have slumped in the course of her work.
A source revealed that the deceased was a staff of a popular fast food, KFC, at Festac area in Lagos state.
He explained that the management of the fast food had yet to publicly tell the truth as to what led to the death of their staff.
Meanwhile, a family source had said that the fast food joint claimed that Chinwedu slumped and died while at work on Friday, July 7.
She also claimed that the suspected fast food refused to release the corpse to the family.
She explained further that a policeman also countered the fast food joint’s account of what led to Chinwedu’s death, saying that the deceased was electrocuted.
The family source said that, “She started working at KFC barely two months ago.
“On Friday last week, she was said to have slumped at about 11 pm.
“KFC claimed she just screamed and fell while trying to hang her washed clothes.
“According to them, they rushed her to the hospital, but the first hospital rejected her because of deposit, it was the second hospital that they took her that pronounced her dead on arrival.
“KFC took her body to the morgue without informing her family. And as we speak, they are yet to show the family where they dumped her body. Even the police has refused to tell the family where the body is.
“We think they are trying to cover up something.
“We don’t think she fell just like that. KFC claimed she just screamed and fell but they didn’t call her family who lives nearby.
“They took her to the hospital and still didn’t inform her people.
“She died and they took her body to the mortuary without informing her family.
“They ran to Festac police to make an entry without informing the family still.
“It was the police that later called the family on Saturday afternoon, telling her mom to come to the station that her daughter had issues at work.
“Only for the woman to get there and they just reluctantly told her that her daughter was dead.
“She wasn’t sick. In fact, she was very fine and healthy.
“We think it was electrocution (our assumption) because there was a statement a policeman made to the elder brother.
“He said and I quote: ‘oh, na you wey electric shock your sister for Festac.’
“She was the only daughter of her family. She started working at KFC after she dropped out of nursing school.”
This is not the first time the real cause of death of loved ones will bring about controversies, some persons have accused the police of cover-up in some instances, until justice is seen to be done.
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