Late Omotoyosi Remilekun Meshioye
By Victory Oghene
Some Nigerians are unhappy with the way officials of Egypt Air dumped the remains of a female Nigerian, London- bound passenger, Omotoyosi Remilekun Meshioye in Cairo without informing her family.
Omotoyosi, whose UK visa indicated that she had a student work permit, was to connect London Heathrow via Cairo on Tuesday September 5 aboard Egypt Air flight MS 777 after passing the night in the country upon arrival on Monday, September 4, however, did not arrive her destination after the airline deposited her corpse in a morgue in Cairo.
The 43-year-old Nigerian’s travel itinerary showed that she travelled aboard a Boeing 737-800 on the first leg of the journey to Cairo while a Boeing 777-300 was to convey her and others to London from the Egyptian capital.
A relative of Toyosi who is based in Leed, UK, Mrs. Olufunmilola Olaniyi-Alabi, expressed shock at the inability of the airline to contact the family.
““We called EgyptAir customer care and all other contact phone details on their website but no response all through Wednesday and when the phone was picked they quickly cut it. It was only once that a man picked the call that we put through to Egypt Air Region Office in London and he said the London office is not aware of what happened and they don’t have information to share with us.
“So, we were left with no choice, but to report to the UK Police Department on Wednesday and they later confirmed to us that our sister was not in the UK. They advised us to contact Cairo or Lagos airports.
“We contacted the agent who sold the ticket to her and the agent sent us proof that she did not board the plane going to Heathrow from Cairo,” she said.
She said the family was yet to come to terms with the news of the death of their daughter. “We are shocked and greatly displeased with the attitude of Egypt Air. The Nigerian government must investigate the mystery behind her death”
Also a renowned Journalist, Mr. Ejiro Adigbo, condemned the way Omotoyosi’s remains were handled by the airline.
Adigbo wrote on his Facebook page “RIP. Omotoyosi Remilekun Meshioye. She died on board Egypt Air MS 876 flight to Cairo on her way to London, Egypt Air dumped her corpse in Cairo and went about its normal business. Her family didn’t know she had died. If she was an American, I am sure Egypt Air won’t treat her that way. She is a Nigerian”
Other Facebook users condole the Omotoyosi’s family and condemned the way her remains were handled by officials of the airline.
NATIONAL WAVES had reported how Omotoyosi died aboard Egypt Air flight on her way to London, United Kingdom.
She was said to have left Nigeria for London onboard Egypt Air MS 876 flight to Cairo on Monday through the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos, when she died on board.
