AMALA CONSUMPTION CAUSES DEATH OF FAMILY MEMBERS, TWO DOGS IN EKITI
The Ekiti State Police Command Public Relations Officer,Caleb Ikechukwu confirmed the incident, explaining that the police has concluded arrangements to join hands with other stakeholders to investigate the cause of the deaths.
Penpushing further reports that, at the Ekiti State House of Assembly, a lawmaker, Adeoye Aribasoye representing Ikole Constituency II, on Thursday raised the issue at the plenary of the House and called for an investigation of the matter.
The lawmaker told the House that, the meal was made by the late woman and served to all the family members as dinner, adding, that after they ate the prepared staple food on Saturday, the mother and the two children complained of stomach ache overnight.
Penpushing also reports that Aribasoye told his colleagues that the family resorted to self-medication which led to the death of the mother on Monday, and later the two children also gave up the ghost the following day.
The lawmaker said, “before the deaths were broken to the father, he was already down and the father was rushed to Federal Teaching Hospital(FETHI), and he is currently battling with his life”, lamenting that the poor state of health facilities at the health centre in Odo Ayedun community, failed to provide the needed first aid to the victims.
Penpushing reports that the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Funminiyi Afuye while reacting to the sad development , sympathised with the deceased’s family and the entire people of the constituency over the tragic incident, and equally directed the House Committee on Health to commence investigation into the matter.
