Meanwhile, Interim Public Relations Officer of Edo Civil Society Organisations, EDOSCO, Leftist Aliyu Unweni has debunked the claims by Edo State Police Command and dismissed as false alarm the insinuations that it was a ritualists den that was raided on Wednesday.
He said that following the worrisome news , they sent their team of investigators to unravel the true situation of the matter and according to the report they got, the said building where the mummified corpses were found is not a ritualists’ den but a newly built morgue to house evacuated corpses from an old facility because the operator had been given a quit notice.
In the statement that EDOSCO sent out on Thursday, the operational name of the morgue is St GAbriel Funeral Home with other offices at No.24 1st Federal Road, Benin City and with branches in Anambra, Ebonyi states and also Murtala Mohammed road and 1st East Circular road where the corpses were moved from.
Leftist Aliyu also said that the shrine discovered was a traditional form of worship by the proprietor as a spiritual protection for himself and the business.
The civil society lamented that it was a pity that the Police did not carry out their investigation properly before going to the media with their claims. They also blamed the Edo state government for de-marketing the state and her people to the world which showed that it lacks an intelligence gathering mechanism to filter stories.
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