(VIDEO) Lagos: Police React, As Grieving Family Accuses KFC of Hoarding Staff Corpse
By THECONSCIENCEng
Aggrieved family members and friends of an employee of a popular eatery, KFC, on Wednesday July 12, took to the popular Lagos restaurant to demand the release of the corpse of their loved one.
The deceased identified as Anita Chinwedu, it was gathered, worked at the restaurant’s outlet in Festac area of Lagos state before her sudden death last Friday.
According to reports, The family got wind of her death 24 hours after she passed and could not get access to her corpse.
While the management of the restaurant is yet to publicly disclose what led to the death of their staff, a family member alleged that they (restaurant) claimed that Chinwedu slumped and died while at work on Friday, July 7.
One of the family of the lady stated that they only got information from KFC that their daughter fainted and died while trying to dry her wet clothes. According to them, KFC has refused to show the family where the corpse of their daughter is.
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It was also alleged that a policeman countered the restaurant’s account of how Chinwedu died, by allegedly revealing that she was electrocuted.
A family member said; “She started working at KFC barely two months ago. On Friday last week, she was said to had slumped at about 11 PM.
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“KFC claimed she just screamed and fell while trying to hang her washed clothes. According to them, they rushed her to the hospital, but the first hospital rejected her because of deposit, it was the second hospital that they took her to that pronounced her dead on arrival.
“KFC took her body to the morgue without informing her family. And as we speak, they are yet to show the family where they dumped her body. Even the police has refused to tell the family where the body is.
“We think they are trying to cover up something. We don’t think she fell just like that. KFC claimed she just screamed and fell but they didn’t call her family who lives nearby. They took her to the hospital and still didn’t inform her people.
“She died and they took her body to the mortuary without informing her family. They ran to Festac police to make an entry without informing the family still.
“It was the police that later called the family on Saturday afternoon, telling her mom to come to the station that her daughter had issues at work. Only for the woman to get there and they just reluctantly told her that her daughter was dead.
“She wasn’t sick. In fact, she was very fine and healthy. We think it was electrocution (our assumption) because there was a statement a policeman made to the elder brother. He said and I quote: ‘oh, na you wey electric shock your sister for Festac.’
“She was the only daughter of her family. She started working at KFC after she dropped out of nursing school.”
The grieving mother can be seen in viral video rolling around on the ground outside the restaurant while yelling for her daughter’s body to be released.
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The management has refused to offer any statement yet but a member of staff, who reportedly spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: “Management is careful not to speak at this point because it is a sad situation. She screamed and slumped while hanging her clothes on the line. She was rushed to two hospitals and was pronounced dead at the second one.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hudenyi, also reportedly said two staff of the eatery had been arrested.
He said: “They are still in our custody. The case was reported at the Festac Division, from where it was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.
An investigating team visited KFC yesterday (Thursday) to check the Close Circuit Television, CCTV, as part of the investigation.”
