Nigerian hospital 'overwhelmed by corpses from police'

[Meatpie]

A hospital in Nigeria has told the BBC it is overwhelmed by the number of corpses being bought to them by police.

The Chief Medical Director at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu says his staff are being forced to carry out mass burials.

The BBC has established that at least seven people were last seen alive in police custody, accused of kidnapping.

Enugu State Police Commissioner Mohamed Zarewa told the BBC he was too busy to talk about their case

Nigeria's police have faced strong criticism from human rights groups for carrying out extrajudicial and arbitrary killings.

The BBC has visited the morgue and taken photographs. The images are disturbing.
They show piles of young men, lying on top of one another and strewn about on tables and floors.

In places the corpses are stacked four or five deep.

Officers killed

Records show 75 corpses were delivered to the morgue by police between June and 26 November this year.

The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Anthony Mbah, says his staff were forced to carry out a mass burial of between 70 and 80 bodies some weeks ago.

He says that another mass burial is planned to take place soon.
Seven of those in the morgue were arrested, accused of kidnapping, and paraded alive in front of the media in early September.

But their names appear in the morgue register - on 15 and 16 of September.
Police Commissioner Zarewa told the BBC he was unaware of the number of young men lying dead in the morgue.

He says his officers are forced to engage armed robbers in gunfights and that many police officers are also killed.

He insists that his police force operate within the law.

Some of the bodies were piled on top of each other.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8400799.stm


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[94elmwood]

nigeria is a wild place.Since i have traveled around the world inclding parts of africa.Ghana has little crime no guns and people walk around 12 oclock at night going about their bussiness at night but in nigeria you better be in a guarded compound people will rob you and kill you.Its said by other africans if you go to nigeria spend the day but when it gets night you better leave the counrty.Corrupt dictatorship government and rich in oil as much as africa is also rich in natural resources the government officials are rich and they take all the money and dont help the poor therefore always problems with rebels

 

[Meatpie]

I had no idea you had been Africa, when did it go and for what reason if you it is so dangerous and violent?

Where else have you been to?

Very sad what you said about Nigeria, let's hope things improve for people there soon.

 

[djbear]

nigeria is a wild place.Since i have traveled around the world inclding parts of africa.Ghana has little crime no guns and people walk around 12 oclock at night going about their bussiness at night but in nigeria you better be in a guarded compound people will rob you and kill you.Its said by other africans if you go to nigeria spend the day but when it gets night you better leave the counrty.Corrupt dictatorship government and rich in oil as much as africa is also rich in natural resources the government officials are rich and they take all the money and dont help the poor therefore always problems with rebels

I also have been to Africa and found it much scarier in Kenya because of the refugees there than elsewhere. However, I never went to Nigeria and yes, the corrpution there is known to be horrendous and they also have real problems between the north and south, partly religious and partly tribal.

 

[44howard]

Tribal issues and religious issues in africa play a big part as well as wealth and in kenya you have refugess from somolia.Now they have drug problems because of cocaine coming from columbia and being tracked into Europe..Ghana is a big destaination for stolens cars from the US