Keshi: Family cries foul, wants death probed

The family of late former Super Eagles skipper and coach, Stephen Keshi, has called for a probe into the death while narrating how he died at the Faith Mediplex Hospital located off Airport road in Benin, the Edo state capital.

Keshi died just about six months after his wife passed on and was buried in January this year in the state capital.

Already, the body was removed from Faith Mediplex hospital complex in the early hours of yesterday morning to the Stella Obasanjo hospital in the state capital.

The brother in-law to late Keshi, Mr. Ricky Aburime, narrated how he suffered from stress and pains in the leg before he was rushed to the hospital where the doctor confirmed him dead.

According to Aburime, “Keshi had complained of pains and asked that he be massaged and as the massaging was going on, all of a sudden we noticed that his countenance changed and he was in distress.

“He said, look he didn’t like that way he felt. The person that was with him, Ebuka, rushed out and requested that he should be taken to the hospital.

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“From that moment when they put him inside vehicle from his nearby house to the hospital between 11:30 (Tuesday)and few minutes to 12midnight(Wednesday) he was dead by the time we reached here (hospital). It was the nurse that first checked the pulse and confirmed that nothing was there until doctor came and confirmed that he was dead. And that was it.”

He further explained that the late Super Eagles coach in the first instance was never “a patient of Faith Mediplex Hospital and protocol would not allow them any kind of report or even give death certificate, we decided to go and bring in the police which we did last night which inspected the body before the hospital staff were able to keep him in the mortuary.”

He added that the family would conduct an autopsy on Keshi’s body in order to ascertain the actual cause of his death contrary to wild speculations that he died of cardiac arrest.

He said, “Let no one speculate, for the avoidance of doubt that is why we want to do an autopsy. That is why we are not embalming now. We are going to preserve him until the experts can do the proper pathology on the body before we can now embalm and start talking about anything, and I think at that point we can now lay everything to rest.

“Between the time we carried him from the house to the hospital was not more than 20 minutes before doctor confirmed him dead on arrival,” Aburime said.

 

 

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