29 BODIES INDENTIFIED BY DANA AIR VICTIMS RELATIONS

Of the 43 bodies recovered at the site of Sunday’s Dana air plane crash in Iju-Ishaga, Lagos families and friends were able to recognize 29 bodies, Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Prof. David Oke said. The remaining recognizable bodies were however not yet identified by the anxious relations that besiege the hospital. Relations of the deceased are to fill a form for identification, a process that includes passport photographs of family representatives and photocopies of international passport. The names of some of the bodies identified by their relatives has released by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH are as follows Martin Alade (M), Prof C.O. Onwuluri, Temitope Ariyibi (F), Sonny Ehioghae (M), Nagidi Ibrahim (M), Chinwe Uzoamaka Obi (F), Okocha Christopher (M) Mahmud Ahmed Dukawa (M), Anibaba Tosin (F), Stanford Obstrute (M), Ibrahim Jangana (M), Ikpoki Obiola (M), Ailende Ehi Joel (M), Patrick Eze Okonji (M), Kim Edger Norris (M), Bassey Eyo (M), John Ahmadu Hamza (D.I.G)(M), Kanguyi (Chinese (M)), Femi Shobowale (M), Charles Ntoko (M), George Moses (M), Dr Abiodun Jonathan (M), Obinna Akubueze (M) Ifeanwaka Jones (M) Olabinjo Awodogbin (M), Obot Emmanuel (M), However relations of the victims will have to abide by the Lagos State Coroner Law that makes it compulsory that autopsy must be performed on a body before the issuance of a death certificate. “Every corpse leaving our mortuaries will leave with a death certificate. And we cannot issue death certificates without autopsy,” the Chief Medical Director (CMD), LASUTH, Prof Wale Oke said. The Consultant Pathologist and Forensic Medicine and Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Professor John Obafunwa, led seven other pathologists to commence the autopsy.