Adebayo Adenrele
Enugu State Commissioner of
Police, Ahmed Ammani, has appealed to the bereaved families of Obinna Dike and residents of Akutara village in Adani community of Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, to be peaceful and support the police with necessary information in the investigation to unravel his death, and five others.
It was reported that Obinna attended his own traditional marriage ceremony at Obollor-Eke in Udenu council area with his relatives and other victims of the incident.
They went home and continued the celebration, only for people to saw them unconscious in the room with foamy discharge from their mouths, the next day.
NEWSTODAYNG recalled that Ammani ordered the state’s Criminal Investigation Department to investigate circumstances surrounding their death to bring the perpetrators into book.
Ammani gave the directive in a media statement released through the police Public Relations Officer DSP Daniel Ndukwe.
He also directed the CID department to unravel why eight persons were hospitalised under the same strange circumstances.
According to the statement, the directives were given following the receipt of a report alleging the sudden and unnatural deaths and hospitalisation in the Community on August 27.
The statement reads, “Preliminary investigation reveals that one of the confirmed deceased persons, Obinna Dike, 31, attended his own traditional marriage ceremony at Obollor-Eke in Udenu council area on August 26 with his relatives and other victims of the incident.”
“They, thereafter, went back home and continued with the celebration.”
“However, the following morning, none of them came out of the room where they slept.”
“This caused the door to be forced open, with all of them in the room found to be unconscious with foamy discharge from their mouths.”
The statement, however, noted that they were rushed to the hospital, where six of them were confirmed dead and deposited in the mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
However, eight others who survived are responding to treatment in a hospital in the area.
