EXCLUSIVE: How 7 Persons Died After Allegedly Eating Suya, Fruit Juice In Abia [PHOTOS, VIDEO]

It may take a long while for Mrs. Chibuzor Ikwunze who lost her four children in a day to get over her pains as she says life seems and will never remain the same for her.

ABN TV had reported that seven persons lost their lives in Umuahia Abia state after eating barbecue meat, known as Suya, and an undisclosed brand of juice last week.

In a chat with our correspondent on Sunday, the distraught mother who could not hold her tears gave the names of her children who lost their lives as Kelechi Chibuzor 12, Sunday Chibuzor 10, Oluomachi Chibuzor (f) 8, and Kingsley Chibuzor 3.

They had visited a family friend, Sunday Ogba, and his family in Umuahia from where they died after eating the suya and juice.

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Sunday Ogba who bought the juice also lost his life along with two of his children, leaving his wife and a daughter who survived the incident.

Mrs. Ikwunze said on the fateful day when her four children lost their lives, she received a phone call that the family friend, Sunday Ogba whose home his children had visited for holiday has lost his life.

According to her, the news appeared unbelievable, having seen the host, Ogba the previous day in Umuahia town.

While still expressing shock, she said she immediately raced to their home where she saw a large crowd.

Unknown to her, her four children were also dead after eating the suya and drinking the juice suspected to have been poisoned.

She said she was unconscious and recovered after three days in the hospital.

In his comment, father of the deceased children, Chibuzor Ikwunze a native of Umuagu, Umuhu Ohuhu expressed sadness over the incident.

He said the late Sunday Ogba was a former neighbour who later turned to family friend.

He noted that this is not the first time his children are visiting the late Ogbaa’s family.

He appealed to the state government to investigate the cause of his children’s death and make the findings known.

Wife of the late Sunday Ogba, Mrs. Chinonyerem Ogba, a native of Nkanu Item in Abia State said every member of the family, as well as the visiting family friends ate from the suya and juice her late husband bought on the fateful day.

Mrs. Chinonyerem Ogbaa who lost her husband and two children said 30 minutes after eating the suya and juice everyone, including herself started feeling intoxicated before she started screaming and later found herself in the hospital.

Her surviving daughter, Ijeoma expressed sadness over the death of her siblings and family friends who had visited.

The state government had in a statement earlier indicated readiness to investigate the death of the seven persons.

Further findings by ABN TV however revealed that there was a power outage in the apartment where the victims lived before their death.

This prompted them to power on their generator, a little distance away from their parlour.

A neighbour told our correspondent that the power generator was still working till midnight, prompting him to call their attention to an overflowing water tank but to no avail.

The generator was said to have went off on its own the next day after the fuel was exhausted.

Though an autopsy on the body of late Mr Sunday Ogba will commence on Friday 3rd September 2021, it is not certain if their death was caused by the consumption of suya and fruit juice as widely speculated or generator fume.

Recall that several deaths have been recorded in recent times from generator smoke.