…Family to conduct autopsy
As a shell shocked African continent continues to mourn and pour tributes,
it has emerged that Nigeria’s football legend, Stephen Keshi, died within
a space of twenty minutes after he complained of pains in his legs and
requested for a massage.
The family has now decided to conduct an autopsy on his remains to
ascertain the cause of death.
Speaking on his last minutes, the brother-in-law to the former Super
Eagles captain and coach, Mr Ricky Aburime, said Keshi, who lost his wife
six months ago to cancer, died of “distress and pain”.
Keshi died at the Faith Mediplex Hospital located off Airport Road in
Benin City, Edo State . His remains had been deposited at the Stella
Obasanjo Hospital Morgue also in Benin City.
“Keshi had complained of pains and asked that he be massaged. As the
massaging was going on, all of a sudden, we noticed that his countenance
changed and was in distress. “He said he didn’t like the way he was
feeling.
The person that was with him, Ebuka, rushed out and requested that he
should be taken to the hospital.
“He was taken to a nearby hospital about 11:30p.m. and before we got there
a few minutes to midnight, he had given up the ghost. It was the nurse
that first checked his pulse and confirmed that nothing was there.
The doctor came and confirmed that he was dead. And that was it!”
He said because Keshi was not a patient at the hospital, his death
certificate could not be produced there.
“As such, we decided to involve the police who inspected the body before
the hospital staff were able to deposit it in the mortuary.
“Let no one speculate, for the avoidance of doubt that is why we want to
do an autopsy.
That is why we are not embalming his body now. We are going to preserve
him until the experts can do the proper pathology on the body before we
can now embalm and start talking about burying him and, I think at that
point, we can now lay everything to rest.
“The time between when we carried him from the house to the hospital was
not more than 20 minutes when the doctor confirmed him dead on arrival,”
Aburime said.