Thursday, May 14, 2015

3 dead after drinking ethanol "ogogoro" in edo state, sellers on the run

Investigators and officers from Ondo State Police Command are operating around the clock to unravel the mysterious death of 3 persons when intense an area gin, popularly called ogogoro at Oka Motor Park in Ondo city, Ondo State.

This is returning because the government aforementioned last week that it had curtailed the happening of an odd malady that caused the death of twenty three persons at Irele space of the state.

The government aforementioned the twenty three World Health Organization died at Irele consumed toxic ethyl alcohol and illegal the consumption of ogogoro across the state.

Vanguard gathered that the deceased persons during this latest incident enclosed a member of the National Union of Road Transport employees, NURTW, within the park, Associate in Nursing skilled worker and another person operating within the motor park.

It was learned that the 3 persons consumed the native gin at the park and at once complained of upset stomach. different members of the union reportedly applied native herbs to calm them down, however they before long became unconscious.

An witness aforementioned they died before they might be rush to a close-by hospital within the city, adding that the deaths were mysterious as different members of the union sometimes drank identical ogogoro.





Vanguard gathered that the vendor of the ogogoro had fled the park for worry of arrest by policemen, World Health Organization reportedly stormed the motor park to analyze the incident.

The witness aforementioned consumption of ogogoro at motor parks by members of NURTW was a daily incidence.
It was conjointly gathered that the deceased had been buried per Muslim rites while not undergoing any autopsy to verify the $64000 reason for their death.

Contacted, the police image maker, Wole Ogodo, said: “When I known as the DPO of the Enuowa Police Division in Ondo, he aforementioned no one had reportable the case at the station, that they too detected it as rumor within the city.

“We have commenced investigation and when the investigation we tend to shall let the complete world recognize what really happened to the aforementioned 3 persons.”

We ‘re in control— Health Commissioner

It would be recalled that the Health Commissioner, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, last weekend aforementioned the government has with success curtailed the ethyl alcohol poison at Irele space of the state.

He aforementioned the sensitization efforts of presidency had yielded results on the consumption of the native gin.

The commissioner other that each National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and management, NAFDAC, and SON had intervened to standardize the production of the native gin and regulate it’s production.

Adeyanju said: “Those that died as a results of the consumption of the native gin are the chronic drinkers, whereas those who simply tasted it have since regained their sights.”

According to him, a high concentration of the ethyl alcohol poison was discovered within the system of these that died as a results of its consumption.


Adeyanju distinguished that the ban on the consumption of ogogoro within the state still subsists, whereas government would deal resolutely with those that flouted the directive.


source: vanguard