DEATH IN UMAHI’S HOME! HOW MARY HABBILA ARRIVED TO ‘ATTEND’ TO MINISTER AND DIED THE NEXT MORNING
GREATRIBUNETVNEWS– THE report of the death, first broken by SaharaReporters, says the young woman died barely 24 hours after she and another Kaduna lady were brought to the Minister’s home.
June 26 arrival, June 27 death – Police move case to SCID as Ebonyi Government maintains deafening silence
What killed Mary Habbila?
That is the question of throwing the entire household and community of Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, in Uburu, Ohaozara LGA of Ebonyi State, into serious quandary after a female student died mysteriously inside his residence.
THE 24-HOUR MYSTERY:
“Habbila and Baski reportedly arrived at the minister’s residence on June 26 to ‘attend’ to him, only for Habbila to be found dead inside the residence the following morning under circumstances investigators are still trying to establish.”
ITEMISED KEY ISSUES WITH FULL QUOTATIONS:
1. THE BREAKING HEADLINE
“BREAKING: Mystery death! Female student dies a day after arriving Umahi’s home. ”
2. THE LOCATION OF DEATH
“The circumstances that led to the sudden death of Mary Habbila, a Nigerian female student died in the Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, home of Dave Umahi, Minister of Works, has now thrown the entire household and environs into serious quandary.”
3. THE ALLEGED COVER-UP AND OFFICIAL SILENCE
“SaharaReporters, which first broke the revealed that the incident, which happened since June 27 this year, has been shrouded in secrecy, with both the Ebonyi State Government and the state police command maintaining silence over the matter.”
4. THE TWO KADUNA WOMEN AND POLICE INVESTIGATION
“The incident, the report, added, took place barely a day after Habbila and another woman, Anita Baski, both from Kaduna State, were reportedly brought to the minister’s residence, triggering a police investigation, with the case transferred from the Ohaozara Divisional Police Headquarters to the Ebonyi State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Abakaliki.”
Police sources were quoted by the paper as saying that Jonathan Bawado, a police officer who serves as Senator Umahi’s Personal Assistant and previously worked as his Aide-de-Camp (ADC) during his tenure as Governor of Ebonyi State, alerted medical personnel after Habbila was discovered unresponsive.
Subsequently, a doctor and an ambulance were dispatched to the residence, while Tobechukwu Godwin, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ohaozara Police Division, was notified of the incident, the report said, adding that at the hospital Chihurumnanya Alo, a Professor and Consultant Public Health Physician, Infectious Diseases Specialist and Chief Medical Director of the David Umahi Federal University Teaching Hospital (DUFUTH), Uburu, was also alerted about the incident.
The police who subsequently conveyed Habbila’s body to a mortuary, were said to have handed over the identification tag attached to Habbila’s to the Ebonyi State Police Command by the said DPO, as part of the ongoing investigation.
SaharaReporters, quoted a senior police officer, with knowledge of the case as saying: “The case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department in Abakaliki,” but, however declined to provide further details, citing the ongoing investigation.
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