The family of Ayomide Taiwo, a 20-year-old fashion designer who was allegedly killed by a policeman in Osun State has cried out for help over inability to pay mortuary bill demanded by Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital Osogbo.
The family said the situation has now led to the refusal of the mortuary to release the body since August.
The deceased brother, Adebayo Popoola begged for the assistance of members of the public to recover the body of his brother from the mortuary.
InsightMedia has in August reported how a 20-year-old fashion designer, Ayomide Taiwo was attacked by a police Inspector along Ibokun road and died at the hospital after six days in coma.
The police officer identified as Inspector Eghavbe Ago was later dismissed by the police and is currently facing trial.
Deceased’s mother, Yemisi Taiwo said she sold their farms and even borrowed money in their futile fight to save Taiwo’s life and they have nothing left to pay the mortuary in order to bury the deceased.
Meanwhile, after the death of Ayomide in LAUTECH, the family was given the bill of N79,000 to pay the hospital to claim the corpse.
“Unfortunately, the money I had alongside my mum that day was just N11,000. Mother sold her farm and even borrowed money in the cause to save my brother’s life.
“My mother has been on the sick bed since the incident and all what she wanted was to have her son buried,” Popoola said. (Daily Post)
