Oviekeme was arrested on Tuesday alongside eight others over alleged attack on a policeman and theft of his service rifle. He allegedly died after a strange ailment at the police clinic while he was being treated.
The spokesman of the Bayelsa State Police Command, Asinim Butswat, while speaking with LEADERSHIP confirmed that there was an attempt to steal the corpse of the deceased but was foiled by vigilant security men on duty. According to him, “At about midnight on Saturday, there was an attempt to steal the corpse of the deceased but it was foiled by vigilant security men.”
LEADERSHIP gathered yesterday that the reason for the attempt to allegedly steal the corpse, which was deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre by the police, is unknown.But it was also gathered that at about 12am, mortuary attendants at the Federal Medical Centre alerted the men of the Operation Puff Adder and operatives of the Anti-cultism squad of the police on the strange request of some youths including a State House of Assembly member for the release of the corpse.
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