A private hospital in Isoko Area of Delta State has refused to release six corpses in its mortuary for burial over N13.5M unpaid bills. The corpses were victims of Irri Inter-communal crisis of 2002.
The community buried some victims yesterday but could not bury the six has the hospital insists on the payment of the owed bills.
Mr Goddey Igorigo, the chairman of Irri Development Union, spoke to Vanguard journalists after the burial.
He said: “We are supposed to have also buried all of them today but because we do not have money,
the management of the hospital took us to court to pay the sum of N13.5 million and also demanded for the payment of N1 million damages to them.
the management of the hospital took us to court to pay the sum of N13.5 million and also demanded for the payment of N1 million damages to them.
“The matter is in court as we speak now but with the judgement so far passed, the court asked the management of the hospital to reduce the bill. So we are begging the local government, state and federal governments to come to the aid of Irri to settle the bill so that we can bury the remaining bodies of the victims of the crisis.”
Blaming the crisis on power tussle and the divide and rule tactics of an oil company operating in the area, Igorigo advised the people of the community to keep away from anything that could lead to a recurrence of crisis in the community.
“We should leave peacefully and forgive one another for wrongs done to us,” he admonished the people of the area.
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