The
controversy, which had characterised the sudden death of the Chairman,
Abeokuta Golf Resort Plc, Apagun Oluwole Olumide, continued on Monday as
his burial was held up for hours over the disagreement between the
deceased’s family and the police on the need for an autopsy.
While men of the Ogun State Police
Command insisted that an autopsy should be carried out on the deceased
as part of their investigation into the death of the Abeokuta High
Chief, the family submitted that they preferred to bury the late
architect as they did not suspect any foul play in his demise.
Olumide died on Friday in the Rock
Beach, an artificial lake in the golf resort in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta,
while his body was recovered by local divers from the lake on Saturday
morning before it was deposited at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro,
Abeokuta.
The late architect would have been 70 in May.
Controversy has however persisted on the
sudden death of the socialite and business associate of the former
Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, who attended the burial.
Observers had attributed Olumide’s death
to suicide while others argued that murder should not be ruled out of
the shocking incident.
At the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro,
Abeokuta, on Monday, it was alleged that the policemen prevented the
corpse from being released to the family until an autopsy was carried
out.
Family members, who arrived in the hospital at about 8am, however alleged that Olumide death was being politicised.
Some of the family members reportedly
engaged the police in a long drawn argument on why an autopsy was not
necessary before the burial of their patriarch, arguing that they did
not suspect foul play in the death.
The policemen, led by Assistant
Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, Mr. Joel Eye, presented a
letter reportedly written by the state government, ordering an autopsy
on the body before the burial.
It was learnt that the development led
to an exchange of words between the family members, led by the
deceased’s first son, Femi Olumide, and the policemen.
The argument was said to have lasted about two hours, after which the family conceded that an autopsy be conducted.
The result of the autopsy was yet to be made public as at press time.
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