Residents Panic As Corpse Decomposes In Lagos Garden

Local residents at Ibukun Oluwa, Oworonshoki area of Lagos State are reportedly scared that a decaying corpse in the State-owned park and gardens may cause an epidemic.

 

They say the corpse had been abandoned at the gardens since Saturday, adding that efforts to get health workers to remove it had been abortive. They said they feared that the body could blow up if nothing was done on time.

The decomposing body was balanced on one of the steel benches constructed at the gardens. The victim, who people call Peter, had been living under the bridge for the past 4 years and no one knows his family members.

When Punch contacted a top government official in the Lagos State Ministry of Environment, the person said the matter was out of the purview of the ministry.

The police, officials of the Kick Against Indiscipline from the Ministry of the Environment, had allegedly visited the gardens. A cleaner at the gardens lamented that the police and the KAI officials merely looked at the corpse and went away.