Overview
- A joint team inspected the Jessy Best Hotel and a nearby private mortuary in Umuhu, Ngor-Okpala, following a tip-off.
- Police reported finding more than 100 decomposed and mutilated bodies and the state ordered both facilities sealed.
- Owner Stanley Morocco Oparaugo was declared wanted, while police say one suspect is in custody and accomplices are being sought.
- Investigators searched the suspect’s residence, recovered exhibits, documented evidence, and boosted security along the Owerri–Aba Expressway.
- Health and pathology officials said the site was not a registered mortuary and posed a public-health risk, with local leaders planning public notices and possible mass burial and demolition.