Doctors at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, have said autopsy result of the late Ikoku Mechanic, Chima Ikwunado will be ready within days.
A pathologist at the hospital told our correspondent on Wednesday that the result will be ready within 10 t0 15 days.
The Rivers State police command produced the mutilated body of the mechanic on Monday.
Family of the deceased and Civil Society Organizations in Rivers State were shocked over the state of the corpse.
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Dr Musa Stephen, a Police pathologist said that there was no previous autopsy conducted on late Chima Ikwunado, countering initial claims by Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni that an autopsy report showed Chima died from high blood sugar.
The family of the deceased and Civil Society Organizations also said that Chima’s body has marks of intense torture.
Civil Society Organizations said that the grievous wounds on the body of late Chima indicate that the deceased suffered brutal torture with machete cuts before his death.
Enefaa Georgewill, Chairman of RIVSCO told newsmen at the Teaching Hospital that Chima’s body is horrible.
He said Chima was tortured to death, regardless of the outcome of the autopsy report.
“We have confirmed that the body is Chima and we must say that with the level of torture that was meted on Chima was out of this world.
“Chima was not tortured to death, he was butchered to death; cracked bones, handcuffs, neck cuffs, wounds and many more. The whole of his hands were machete. You could see it. This is wickedness in the highest place even when torture has been outlawed in our constitution.
“The Police that was meant to protect citizens decided to maltreat a citizen to this level.
“With the level of injury, I don’t think there is need for any autopsy anymore. It is enough to conclude that Chima was butchered to death.”
