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Monday 9 November 2015

PETITIONS BY CONCERNED WOMEN VOICES OVER SALIENT QUESTIONS ABOUT THE STRANGE DEATH OF DR THOMAS





PETITIONS BY CONCERNED WOMEN VOICES OVER SALIENT QUESTIONS ABOUT THE STRANGE DEATH OF DR THOMAS


Sequel to the Press Conference it organized on Thursday October 29th, 2015,  Concerned Women Voices, a coalition of women’s rights groups, professional women and female celebrities, have written a petition to the Inspector General of Police. In their petition, they said:


‘’WE WANT THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF THIS YOUNG FEMALE CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN IN HER HOME. THE TRUTH WHICH CAN ONLY BE GOTTEN WITH A THOUROUGH, UNBIASED INVESTIGATION BY THE POLICE.


Sequel to the Press Conference it organized on Thursday October 29th, 2015,  Concerned Women Voices, a coalition of women’s rights groups, professional women and female celebrities, have written a petition to the Lagos State House of Assembly. In their petition, they asked:

·        If Dr. Idiodi-Thomas was indeed a ‘’psychiatric patient’’ how sick was she? And why was she still allowed to treat patients (sick children) up until 3 days before her death?
·        As a medical doctor and husband to a mentally sick person, what conscious effort did Dr. Babafemi Thomas take to ensure that the wife comes to no harm, and that she was seeking medical attention?
·        Why are there three versions out there as to how she ‘’committed suicide’’? Version one she jumped from the balcony. Version two: the husband found her in front of their bedroom door; and version three, she jumped from the water tanker.
·        As husband, care giver and a medical doctor living with a ‘’psychiatric patient’’, didn’t Dr. Babafemi Thomas think he has the responsibility of  ensuring that all doors are carefully locked and keys kept away, to prevent possible suicidal acts as being projected here?
·        Has the police interrogated neighbours at their 16 Gani Dabiri resident in Ajao Estate, about the way and manner the couple lived and if they had on any occasion heard noises or fights from their flats?
·        Has it been confirmed that if the Thomases lived on the ground floor or first/second floor of the building in order to ascertain the jump down theory?
·        Did Dr. Babafemi Thomas in shock cry out for help and assistance from neighbours when he found his wife unresponsive, severely injured and almost dead?
·        Living in a compound of 5-6 flats, and Dr. Idiodi-Thomas having jumped from her flat or from the water tank, how come other neighbours didn’t hear a fall or a thunderous sound that could have attracted them to come out?
·        Why aren’t the police treating this case as homicide until otherwise proven? Why was Dr. Babafemi Thomas quizzed and released. What PROOF do the police have that he didn’t in anyway play a part in his wife’s death?
·        Are the police relying on the alleged statement attributed to late Dr Hestianna’s mother that her son-in-law didn’t kill her daughter? Was she there in their home the night of the incident? 
·        We learnt an autopsy has been done already. BY WHOM? FRIENDS/COLLEAGUES OF DR BABAFEMI THOMAS WHO ARE PATHOLOGISTS?
·        Why are the Idiodi/Thomas families in a hurry to bury their daughter and wife next week (Thursday Nov 12th) when there are so many unanswered questions? DR HESTIANNA IDIODI-THOMAS SHOULDN’T BE BURIED BEFORE INVESTIGATIONS ARE COMPLETED.
·        PLEASE NOTE: THE CASE HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED TO COURT.
We are calling for an INDEPENDENT AUTOPSY AND CORONER’S INQUEST TO BE CARRIED OUT. NMA, LUTH and LASUTH cannot sit and judge on one of their own.  We cannot also leave investigation on this suspicious death to the police only.
Fiat justiatia, ruat coelem - let justice be done though the heavens fall.     

Thank you,

Yours faithfully,

For: Concerned Women Voices



Benjamin Odeh Esq.

There are several unanswered questions and issues that the Lagos State Police Command need to investigate and provide answers to:

1.     According to reports, when she was brought to LUTH, there were marks on her body and she had a fractured skull and swollen head, which was almost unrecognizable.  How did she sustain these injuries?
2.     In a statement attributed to the PRO Lagos State Command, there were violent marks on her body. How did she get those marks?
3.     Until sufficiently proven otherwise, shouldn’t the police treat this case as a homicide case and not suicide which it seems is what they are currently doing?
4.     Have the police gone to the deceased’s home to talk to neighbours, and take pictures of the ‘’crime scene’’.
5.     Are the police just relying on what the deceased’s husband Dr. Babafemi Thomas and statement attributed to the deceased’s mother as the ‘’gospel truth’’?
6.     If Dr. Idiodi –Thomas was a psychiatric patient, how come LUTH allowed to still be treating children even up to three days before her death?
7.     The three versions of how she died are more worrisome – version one, that “she committed suicide” version two, that “she jumped from the balcony of their Flat” version three, “that she jumped from the water tanker”.
8.     Furthermore, living in a house of 5-6 Flats, how come that no neighbor of theirs heard of any thundering sound of a human being that jumped from a water tanker or balcony of a house to the ground?

A young professional woman and mother of two infant children cannot just sustain fatal injuries in her home and just one word, SUICIDE would be used to explain her death within days. We are indeed tired of women dying questionable deaths in their homes, and the police not doing anything. The life in the home is as important as the life outside the home and part of police responsibility to protect lives and properties.

Sir, as a tested and trusted police officer bestowed with the privilege of having both forensic and legal mind, we urge you to promptly wade into this case by constituting a crack team of independent investigators from outside Lagos State to conduct a fresh investigation into the violent and unfortunate death of this woman. WE GOT INFORMATION THAT THE FAMILY HAVE DECIDED TO BURY DR. HESTIANNA IDIODI THOMAS ON THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12th. THE TRUTH MUST NOT BE BURIED WITH HER.

Fiat justiatia, ruat coelem - let justice be done though the heavens fall.     

Thank you,

Yours faithfully,

For: Concerned Women Voices

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Chukwudi Iwuchukwu

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