This incident is one of the many consequences of the continuous failure of Nigeria's government to find a lasting solution to lingering epileptic power situation in the country about twelve years after returning to democratic rule. While the ruling class and their cronies live in stupendous affluence, the average Nigerian and his immediate family barely survives - living from hand to mouth.
Due to the skyrocketing cost of living and government's inability to give Nigerians the much needed stable electricity, I pass my neighbor generator has become a major item in many homes today. What a shame! After struggling like many other Nigerians to buy their own generator so as to generate their own electricity, tragedy struck in the early hours of...
Tuesday (November 1, 2011) in Mokwa town in Niger State as five members of the same family died in their sleep. Among the dead were the head of the house, his wife and three of their children. A source confirmed they might have died of suffocation arising from inhaling fumes from the generator they put on before they went to bed on Monday night.
Investigations revealed that after the 8-member family took their dinner, each of them retired to their beds for the night but in the morning neighbours discovered that no member of the family came out for the Muslim early morning prayers or later in the morning.
It was said that the development prompted the neighbours to force the door of their apartment open only to find the three surviving members of the family gasping for breath in the rooms. The husband, wife and their three children were found to be stone dead in their rooms resulting in an alarm being raised which attracted other neighbours.
Three other members of the family who lost consciousness were rushed to the Mokwa General Hospital by good Samaritans where they are now receiving treatment. The remains of the deceased were rushed to the General Hospital in Mokwa for autopsy... Niger State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP, Oguche Richard Adamu confirmed the story.
Additional report by Daily Sun.
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