{"id":98394,"date":"2022-08-20T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T08:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98394"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T08:54:39","slug":"mummified-bodies-unravel-crime-in-seven-days-obaseki-orders-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/mummified-bodies-unravel-crime-in-seven-days-obaseki-orders-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Mummified Bodies: Unravel Crime In Seven Days, Obaseki Orders Police\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the controversy over the discovery of 20 mummified bodies in a private facility in Benin City, Governor Godwin Obaseki while calling for calm among the citizens has given the police seven days to carry out a comprehensive investigation into the purposes and ownership of the facility.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Obaseki stated this through a representative at a joint press conference with the police at the headquarters of the Edo State Police Command.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Represented by his special adviser on media projects, Crusoe Osagie, Obaseki said the public would continuously be briefed on the progress of the investigations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: \u201cWe want to call for calm from the public, we don\u2019t want to preempt the outcome of police investigation but the police is actively doing their investigations there are a lot of speculations going around; some people suspect that the place is a quack morgue, could it be for ritual purposes., and we are giving that to the police.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeople have been apprehended and they are undergoing questioning. Some people are still being looked for. The governor has given seven days for them to come back to us with the details of what they have found out, was it just a morgue or is there any ritual involved? No conclusions have been reached yet so police will be allowed to do its work. We are going to continuously brief the public and we are also taking measures through the Ministry of Health to ensure that there is no public health crisis in that area. Edo is safe and there is no evidence yet that anything ritual is involved until the police are through with their investigation.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Commissioner of Police SCID, Olawore Oluwole who is handling the investigation assured that the police would do a thorough job.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the controversy over the discovery of 20 mummified bodies in a private facility in Benin City, Governor Godwin Obaseki while calling for calm among the citizens has given the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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