A decomposing body has been shockingly
discovered inside the public drainage along Marian Boulevard, after the
Jonathan Goodluck Bypass, Calabar. According to Odok Duke, who shared
these photos, he had to call in the police after discovering the corpse
which had been mummified by the weather…
Read what he shared below;
On 17/12/2016, I discovered a
decomposing body inside the public drainage along Marian Boulevard,
after the Jonathan Goodluck Bypass, Calabar. The location is (after the
overhead bridge) the point by the stream, where the Police has a
permanent checkpoint.
The weather had mummified the body and
the greenery had also assisted odoriferously. So, the eight Policemen
carried on, totally oblivious of a victim of murder, eternally entombed
in the gutter nearby.
I called their attention to the corpse
and also put a call across to Mr JoeMary Ekeng Ita of CUDA. He initially
expressed mixed feelings about the removal of the body and the fact
that he did not have a functional vehicle and being a weekend, he was
cash-trapped and unable to hire a vehicle for the assignment. He
suggested that I should call the Commissioner for Environment, but his
phone was unavailable.
The Policemen and I remained there,
while I made alternative plans to remove the body. But to our pleasant
surprise, a gentleman called John,who is the head of the Health Unit of
CUDA, came over to meet us and examine the situation – obviously on the
directive of JoeMary.
John and JoeMary, took over our sentry
duties, earlier that we had expected. As I departed from Ikot Effanga,
my conviction that there were still dedicated public officials abound –
was further consolidated.
My heart goes out to the dead man: he
may have been a father, uncle, brother, guardian or nephew to some
people, somewhere when he was alive. How he died may never be known and
his killers may never be found. His hopes and dreams, will never be
realised. But, he craves for and deserves a dignified repose, methinks.
The gutter,definitely, could not have been the final resting place that
our society would in or humanity accept or wish for him.
To the likes of JoeMary and John (of
CUDA) and the rest of us who still believe that the system can be
tweaked to be better – more grease and Godspeed. Patience and
perseverance are what I wish for us. Selah.
Orok Otu Duke
Duke Town
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