Mass Burial To Be Held For The 11 Bayelsa Women..[R.I.P.]

It has been confirmed that it was only 11 women not 20 as earlier reported by the media that died in the fatal accident involving the female politicians from bayelsa .

However the 11 female Bayelsa politicians who died in an auto crash on Saturday near the Old Ahoada Market road along the East-West road of Rivers state will be given mass burial due to the inability of
relations to recognize their burnt remains and with expert pathologists saying a DNA test would take up to six months, further prolonging the psychological torture of deceased families, and advising that a mass burial would be a better option.

Members of the families have also agreed to this decision.

Rt. Hon Seibarugu Werinipre, former deputy governor to Timipre Sylva and state coordinator of Transformation Ambassador of Nigeria (TAN) led the team that conveyed the ashes and unidentified skulls of the 11 female politicians conveyed to the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre in Yenagoa, yesterday.

Husband of one of the victims and staff of the State Broadcasting Corporation, Mathew Utolor, told journalists that the families could not identify their loved one. “I could not believe that I cannot identify my wife,” he said.

Ambrose Ayebakuro, the 33-year old son of the deceased former House of Assembly member, Hon. Ruby Benjamin, confirmed that they had been contacted that a mass burial would be conducted for the victims. “She was everything to us. But I take solace in the fact that she was close to God.”

Bayelsa state governor, Seriake Dickson has paid a condolence visit to the Secretary to State Government, Prof. Edmund Alison-Oguru over the death of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Oguru, who was also a victim of the crash.

Dickson described the incident as a tragic one, which claimed the lives of female politicians in the state, saying the news of the untimely death of the women came to him as a rude shock, while describing the incident as a painful and terrible blow to the state