She was like my daughter – Umahi breaks silence on Mary Habila’s death

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, connected Thursday said the precocious Miss Mary Habila, a unit subordinate who died astatine his residence successful Uburu, Ebonyi State, was similar a girl to him.

Umahi said this astatine a property league successful Abuja, insisting that helium suspected nary foul play and describing attempts to nexus him to the incidental arsenic authorities taken excessively far.

He said the deceased had worked intimately with him for years and had a past of aesculapian challenges for which helium personally funded treatment.

According to him, the deceased adjutant complained of bleeding from her chemoreceptor during a telephone speech with her fellow soon earlier she was recovered dead, stressing that determination was nary grounds of foul play successful the incident.

The erstwhile Ebonyi State politician disclosed that the deceased was a caregiver employed by the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ebonyi State, contrary to reports describing her arsenic a physiotherapist.

This came pursuing wide nationalist involvement and speculation surrounding the circumstances astir the young woman’s decease aft reports emerged that she died successful 1 of the ministry’s impermanent houses.

The curate further stated that the deceased had been surviving and moving with him for astir 3 years and enjoyed a adjacent narration with his family.

He besides appealed to the deceased’s...