Don’t bring dead bodies to Benue now, Ortom warns

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Tuesday, warned against bringing dead bodies into the state at this time, saying people should be buried wherever they die.

Ortom said that any corpse found been brought to the state will be seized and the State COVID-19 will bury such corpse.

The governor gave the warning against the backdrop of the discovery of a corpse that was brought from Lagos to the state and was intercepted while being ferried across. River Buruku.

The Council Chairman of Buruku chairman, Mrs Dooshima Orlu, on Monday night around 11:30 pm, intercepted a suspected COVID -19 corpse been brought from Lagos and heading to a neighbouring Logo council area.

The Chairman was said to have directed that the corpse and those who were conveying it be kept around the General Hospital in Buruku for onward hand over to the State COVID 19 Committee team headed by the Deputy Governor Engr Benson Abounu.

Governor Ortom said that the Chairman of the state COVID-19 had directed that no corpse should be brought to Benue State for now and that people should be buried wherever they die.

“The steps we are taking is not to punish anyone but it is about the protection of lives. Prevention is better than cure,” the governor said.

Last week two corpses of COVID-19 case was transported from Kano State for burial in the state but were intercepted by the state COVID19 committee.

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