Late Uche Okafor
Ugo Nwokoro, the spokesman of Uche Okafor’s family said yesterday that “Uche will not go down without proper investigation.”It was the backdrop of their experience with the police that fueled his position.
Uche Okafor was found hanging in his Dallas home January 6. Police put the cause of death as suicide but later changed and said the cause was “undetermined.”
This followed the resilience of Ugo and later supported by Anthony Ogbe of the Nigerian Consulate in Atlanta . The Police were compelled to respect the report of the medical examiner who did not rush to conclude that suicide had taken place.
“From what we have experienced here, I read a clear case of racism with regard to the police. They have not done a thorough job in the death of Uche Okafor and they know it,” Ugo said angri ly yesterday.
He further added.
“Finger prints were not taken, neighbours were not interviewed or asked questions and the man who called Uche’s wife to inform that he was not picking his calls and even suggested that she should go to the house to find out why has not even been questioned by the police.
What a shoddy job. When Anthony Ogbe of the Nigerian Consulate told the police that they should take their investigation seriously because Uche was a Nigerian hero and that people of Nigeria were highly interested in the case, the police sergeant who responded said that Uche might have been a Nigerian star but he was not as big as the American football and basketball stars. We were all shocked by his remarks.
I immediately concluded that their action smacked of racism. And because of this, we may hire private investigator and another medical examiner. Uche will not go down without proper investigation.”
Ugo said that there would be a Christian wake in Dallas February 4 in Dallas and that burial has tentatively been fixed for February 19 in Owerri.
Uche’s body was also said not to have exhibited features common with a body that dies through hanging.
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