Tears streamed like a waterway as the remaining parts of four kin who kicked the bucket from suspected food contamination were let go in Umukonu Umuagu Ohuhu in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State.
The exposures including three guys and one female, Kelechi, 12, Sunday, 10, Oluomachi, eight (female) and Kingsley (three) were covered on Saturday, September 18.
The kin, all offspring of Chibuzo and Chioma Ikwunze were purportedly spending their third term occasion in the home of one Sunday Ugba, their nearby family companion at Umueze Ibeku, Umuahia North LGA when the occurrence occurred.
The youngsters and Mr Ugba alongside two individuals from his family kicked the bucket in the wake of eating Suya with organic product juice on August 24th, 2021.
Family sources, nonetheless, said that the aftereffects of the dissection completed on them were all the while being anticipated.
muahia Federal Constituency of Abia) and the President-General of Ohuhu Development Union, Chief Obi Aguocha, went to the assistance
Talking on the misfortune recently, Mr Ikwunze, a craftsman, unveiled that his kids were standard visitors of the Ogbas in Umueze where they generally spent their vacation season.
He said the late Ogba, who hails from Apañu Item, Bende LGA, has been a nearby family companion for the beyond 20 years as the two families had lived respectively at number 17 Ozuitem road augmentation before the Ogba’s migrated to their own home in Umueze.
As indicated by Mr Ikwunze, the late Ogba, had on Tuesday 24th August, gotten back the natural product Juice and the suya which later prompted the passings of three Members of the Ogba family and four individuals from the Ikwunze’s the next day.
“It was on Thursday most fourteen days that my companion called Mr Sunday Ogba (Late) mentioned to me to get my kids at his home Umueze for a vacation similarly as my kids ordinarily do after school period which I did on Friday most recent fourteen days,” he described.
“The late Sunday and I have known one another for the past 20 years having lived respectively at number 17 Ozuitem road augmentation before he constructed his own home at Umueze. He hails from Apañu Item in Bende LGA.
“I and my better half were returning from my studio in Umuahia town, when we saw Mr Sunday Ogba purchasing suya at Uwalaka by Okigwe street in Umuahia, however before we could get to him, he drove off with his vehicle.
“It was the next day, 25th being Wednesday, which I would like to call Black Wednesday, that I got a call that the man, Sunday Ogba, is dead, I could barely handle it. I called my significant other who was planning to go for the August gathering. She similarly communicated incredulity and proposed that we quickly go to their home in Umueze and discover things for ourselves.
“I brought boldness and got back to the individual who educated me regarding the tragic news to get more subtleties and was informed that my four youngsters were additionally dead. On hearing that, we hurried to Umueze where we met a mammoth group including the Nigerian Police and it was there I affirmed that my four kids were no more:
“Data that I got from one of the enduring connection of the late Sunday Ogba, who turns out to be his girl, said her dad rescued the Suya and three bundles of Juice once again from which one was given to my children to share, the different was given to the man’s youngsters to share while the late Sunday devoured the leftover one with his better half
“She said that subsequent to burning-through the Suya and Fruit Juice, my kids mentioned for bubbled sweet potato which was cooked and similarly overwhelmed by red oil by the whole family
“I was informed that my subsequent kid began crying, grumbling of dazedness and later began spewing of which the spouse of the perished Sunday tidied up her regurgitation. From that point forward, different individuals from the family began responding the same way and needed to drink palm oil. Mrs Ogba Sunday from what I heard dropped at the section en route to clean up and the next morning it was found that individuals from their family including my kids were all dead.”