One of the points which the minister has raised concerning the death of the nurse is that the guest house where she was resident was far from his house; other things he said are stated below:
“What baffles me in this country is that everything becomes an opportunity. There is a guest house where she and other medical personnel stayed, and that is very far from where I stay.
“Does it mean that because somebody dies in the Ministry of Works, the minister must be accountable for that?” he asked.
“People should be careful when they want to use the unfortunate death of a young girl to play politics. If we have a hand in the killing, it will follow our families and us. But if we don’t have hands in it and you are jumping into it, be careful. Life is spiritual,” he said.
“It is very painful to me that the girl passed on. It is very difficult to replace her. She was one of my best workers,” he said.
“We have been begging the parents to allow an autopsy to happen. They said it is against their culture. But we insisted through our lawyer that an autopsy should happen. I have directed that the corpse cannot be removed until an autopsy.”
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“We have reported to the Inspector-General of Police to transfer the case to Abuja. Let them beg the family to do an autopsy. I am also begging the family to meet with the Inspector-General so that he can convince them,” he said.
“The boyfriend also told us that when we were in Lagos, she called him and said she was bleeding from the nose.
“He advised her to report to me so I could send her back to the hospital, but she didn’t want to stress me. He then told her to find a hospital around and seek treatment.”
“I have asked the police to go to the call logs. They should go to the call log of the boy and the call log of the girl, and they will hear the last conversation the girl had with the boyfriend at the hour of her death,” he said.
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