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Coalition knocks police for bungling Keren’s autopsy

           …  gains notoriety for enabling pedophiles

A coalition of Gender Based Violence (GBV) responders has knocked the police for bungling the scheduled autopsy of 14 year old Miss Karen-Happuch Akpagher, who was allegedly rape at Premiere Academy, Lugbe, where she was a boarding student.
Following controversies trailing the cause of death of Keren-Happuch, an autopsy was scheduled for Saturday, 3rd day of July 2021. But the refusal of a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) at the FCT Police Command to release a copy of the medical report to the police appointed pathologist stalled the conduct of the autopsy.
The coalition of GBV responders expressed their disappointed and called for a probe of the special interest of the DCP in holding tenaciously to the medical report on the cause of death, wondering what he has to hide.
In a statement issued by members of the coalition, Lemmy Ughegbe of Men Against Rape Foundation and Mrs Edoamaowo Udeme of Network Against Domestic Violence Foundation, they decried “the levity and lack of professionalism” of the police in handling this very serious case, saying it portrays the police as too casual and nonchalant with regards to cases of sexual and gender based violence.
The coalition said thus: “We understand that the principal pathologist at the Maitama General Hospital appointed by the police to conduct the autopsy, Dr. Desmond Ike Okonkwo had in the last 5 days demanded from the police a copy of the medical report on the death of Keren-Happuch. The pathologist said having a copy of the medical report was a pre-condition for him to conduct the autopsy.
“But sadly a Deputy Commissioner of Police in whose custody the said report is had by this morning of the autopsy refused to release the medical report on the basis that it was not necessary to give it to the pathologist.

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