Mary Habila’s death: Police insist on autopsy amid growing controversies

The circumstances surrounding the decease of Miss Mary Habila, a 26-year-old physiotherapist attached to the bureau of the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, took a caller crook connected Wednesday arsenic the Ebonyi State Police Command insisted that a post-mortem introspection would beryllium conducted to found the existent origin of her death.

The latest improvement came arsenic Habila’s household announced that she would beryllium buried connected Friday, July 17, 2026, astatine the Deeper Life Bible Church, Nok, successful Jaba Local Government Area of Kaduna State. 

But successful a connection issued successful Abakaliki, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Joshua Ukandu, disclosed that though the deceased’s household had expressed absorption to an autopsy, the bid considered the process indispensable due to the fact that of the delicate quality of the case.

“The Command considers the introspection necessary, fixed the delicate quality of the lawsuit and the imperative of establishing the existent origin of death,” Ukandu said.

He explained that the constabulary were awaiting the attendance of the deceased’s household oregon their authorised typical earlier the post-mortem exa...