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The autopsy and DNA results on the corpses found floating on Ezu River, Amansea community of Anambra State on January 19, 2013 has been submitted to the Senate a month ago. The findings are allegedly being handled as “security report.”Top officials of the state, including the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Lawrence Ikeakor and his Information and Culture counterpart, Chief Joe-Martins Uzodike, disclosed this to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY in separate interviews.
When contacted on the matter, Ikeakor said the report had been submitted to the Joint Senate Committees on Police Affairs and National Security and Intelligence headed by Senator PaulinusIgwe-Nwagu a month ago.
He said that the report contained the identities and the cause of the death of the victims.
Ikeakor said: “It is only the Senate that can release the report. it is against the ethics of the medical profession to release to the public results of an autopsy and DNA tests conducted without the authority of the relatives of the deceased.
“I have submitted the autopsy and DNA results to the Senate in Abuja since a month ago because they are the people who requested for it.
It is only the Senate that can make the report public,” Ikeakor insisted.
Uzodike stated that the autopsy and DNA result on the corpses was a “security document. How can you expect that the autopsy and DNA reports will be made public to the press?
What if the person died of AIDS? Have you seen any family who after conducting autopsy on their deceased relative and they found out that he or she died of AIDS, will the family now make it public and say that the person died of HIV/AIDS?” Uzodike asked.
Acting on a motion sponsored by Dr. Andy Uba, who represents Anambra South, the Upper House mandated Senator PaulinusIgwe-Nwagu-led Joint Committee on Police Affairs and Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence to wade into the matter.
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