Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has appealed to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, to task the South African police to unravel the murder of a Nigerian woman, Elizabeth Ndubuisi-Chukwu.
Mrs Ndubuisi-Chukwu died on June 13 at Kempton Park, Gauteng Province.
She was said to be the Deputy Director-General of Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN). She was in South Africa to attend the conference of the African Insurance Organisation (AIO).
She was later found dead in her room at Emperor’s Palace Casino, Hotel and Convention Centre, Johannesburg.
Her death has sparked controversy on social media after a report dated June 27, 2019 and signed by the Director-General of the Department of Health, Republic of South Africa, stated that she died of “unnatural causes consistent with strangulation”.
Friends and family members said on a website set up in her memory that she was murdered and even accused the South African government and the hotel management of not doing enough to bring her alleged killers to justice.
It was alleged that the hotel had failed to provide CCTV footage to the police which would assist in the investigation.
Obiano, in a letter addressed to Mr Mustapha on Sunday, said the South African police might be capitalising on the absence of a foreign minister to treat the case with levity.
He said the reports at his disposal concerning the death of the 53-year-old Anambra indigene suggested that “the South African police are treating this murder as just another Nigerian’s death in their country.”
Obiano added: “It is disheartening that over three weeks after the dastardly act, the South African police have not deemed it necessary to investigate the heinous crime with the seriousness it deserves.”
