Abuja UN Bombing: Paul Waziri’s headless body found

Posted by admin Headlines, United Nations Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

The puzzle surrounding the whereabouts of Mr. Paul Waziri, the 25-year-old employee of one of the companies that service the bombed United Nations (UN) House, Abuja, last Friday was solved yesterday as the family discovered his dismembered remains at the National Hospital morgue.

His cousin, Mr. Stephen Bahagu, who had been leading the search party for the father of three since the blast occurred, said the headless body was discovered at the hospital.
Bahagu told Daily Sun yesterday that another cousin of the late Waziri, Obadiah Moses, was able to recognise his cousin’s mutilated body through the wristwatch he spotted on while leaving for work that Friday morning.

He said, however, that the family had not been able to take delivery of the body because the hospital authorities were insisting that some procedures which they are yet to complete, be followed.

According to Bahagu, the morgue operators had asked the family to produce a police report as well as a certificate of death from the National Hospital as a condition before they would release the body for burial. He said the family was already working towards that so that the late Waziri could be properly buried.

Although Bahagu said the family was somehow relieved that Waziri’s body had been found, and be rest assured that he was dead, their worry was how to break the news to the wife, who had been expressing optimism that her husband would return home alive.
Daily Sun had yesterday reported of the family’s seeming fruitless search for Waziri whose fate was yet to be known, three days after the blast.

Although we had earlier reported that a colleague of the late Waziri who survived the blast reported that he saw his headless body after the explosion, the family could not confirm this as they were yet to see either the severed head or the body.
Moses who was the last member of the family to see Waziri alive, said they slept on the same bed on the eve of the bomb somewhere in Durumi, a suburb of Abuja.
According to Musa, Paul woke up early to prepare for work so that he could close early to meet his wife and children and was hale and hearty and bubbling with life.

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