How Generator Fume Killed Family Of 4 In Anambra State!

Peter Nwoye and his wife found dead in their room.

The late Peter Nwoye in his late 40s,  was until his death, an activist who constantly opposed the indiscriminate sale of the community land by a group of people without commensurate development in the community.

When the Nigerian Tribune visited Nkwere Ezunzka, residents were yet to come to terms with the circumstances that led to the  death of members of the  promising family.

One of them, a young man, who claimed to be the electrician that did the wiring of the electrical system in the building of the late Nwoye, argued that the deceased and his family members had been using  generator for over five years and wondered how they could have locked up a 38KVA generator in the passage to their sitting room and went to bed only for the generator to go off after the fuel was exhausted.

The source disclosed that when the police came and forced the door open, the late Peter Nwoye and his wife, Ebele, were found naked in the room with the husband lying on the bed and the wife sitting on a bench by the bed cold dead.

He said that the eldest child, Daluchukwu, a 13-year-old JSS 1 student and her sister, Chioma, who was 10 years old struggled with death vomitting and defecating before they finally gave up the ghost.

Another source and a close friend of  the family said that he was yet to believe that the late Nwoye could be careless to the extent of  sleeping with a generator in his house, stating that, he was well enlightened and knew the dangers of  being exposed to generator fume.

In another quarter in the community, some natives, who pleaded for anonymity, called for proper investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the Nwoye family, describing their demise as unusual.

"We may not be able to prove it scientifically or logically but we have this instinct that there is more to their death than meets the eye. We want a thorough investigation that is all we owe them. It  at the end of the day, it is established that there was no foul play then, they might have died of  recklessness," a member of
the community said.

Another aggrieved youth who said he was with the late Nwoye the night before the incident, blamed constant power failure in the community for the unfortunate incident, positing that every month they paid exhorbitant bills to the officials of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) without regular power supply. He submitted that if there was power supply, the family would not have slept with the generator running.

However, he dismissed any foul play in their death, saying that, it was possible that they had slept off without remembering to turn off the generator.

The Police Public Rations Officer, Emeka Chukwuemeka, confirmed the incident and said that the family of four died as a result of  generator fume they inhaled while asleep. But he said that police had taken custody of the generator and the vomits from the deceased for further investigations

Source: Tribune