Middle-aged man's corpse found in premises of Delta Broadcasting Service

The award of the contract for the execution of the Flood Water Control Project across the Asaba metropolis in Delta State in 2017 is giving way to criminality.

It was confusion Thursday night at the premises of the Delta State Broadcasting Service (DBS), Asaba when a corpse of a middle-aged man was discovered in the pool of stagnant water within the open drains in the premises.

It is still unclear how the corpse got to the wide open drain that passed through the station and yet to be connected.

Staff of the broadcasting house were seeing running helter skelter to find out the identity of the corpse.

While a staff of the station said they were shocked when someone raised the alarm about the presence of the bloated corpse, another said he must have fallen into the drain in an attempt to cross the road.

It was the bruises found on the dead body while his tongue stuck out as at when it was being evacuated, that fuelled speculations that he must have been murdered elsewhere and brought to the spot.

The source added that the supposed murderers may have taken advantage of the open drains filled with stagnant water and other debris in the premises to dump the corpse there.

However, an engineer from the firm handling the drainage project contended that the corpse may have floated from another area within the vicinity into the yet to be covered drains within the broadcast station.

“The water here maybe stagnant but there is nothing inhibiting the flow of water from the connecting culvert across the road. So the corpse may have floated to the spot where it was discovered,” he argued.

The staff, who pleaded anonymity, said they made efforts to turn the corpse which was lying face down in an attempt see his face but were unsuccessful as the stick they were using broke apparently as a result of the weight of the dead body.

According to the source, the management swiftly called the attention of the police who acted immediately to evacuate the remains.

Although the state Commissioner of Police, Adeyinka Adeleke did not answer calls put to his mobile phone, a top source in the command confirmed evacuation of the corpse, saying further steps were being taking to unravel the cause of death.

Recall that DBS is one of the properties usually affected by flooding in the highbrow area of the metropolis whenever there is downpour.

Although, the project has reached advanced stages, certain portions of the perimeter fencing of the broadcast outfit had been pulled down due to the pressure of water in the past.