Bella Ifasola
ABEOKUTA, Nigeria – A man in Nigeria’s Ogun State has died after inhaling generator fumes at their residence at the Shogoye area of Owode-Egba in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government area of the southwestern, police said Saturday.
Nwachukwu Ikechukwu and his wife, Oyin Falodun, were said to have put on the generator in their sitting room around 10 pm on Thursday, but a neighbour, one Oladayo Olasubomi, who had come to drop the ₦1,000 daily contribution for the wife found the couple lying down unconsciously.
Olasubomi reportedly raised the alarm which attracted other neighbours including the Chairman of the community, one Showunmi Sunday, who reported the incident to the Owode-Egba division of the Ogun State Police Command.
Having gotten wind of this tragic incident, the police operatives were said to have visited the scene and found out there were no marks of violence on the deceased.
The spokesperson for the state police command, SP Omolola Odutola said in a statement sent to reporters on Saturday that while Ikechukwu was lost to the incident, his wife who was rushed to the hospital later regained consciousness and explained what happened.
“When it was 2200hrs of 19/09/2024, she asked her husband whether she could put off the generating engine they were using to power their fans in their bedroom, but her husband told her not to do so until when the two of them slept off,” the police spokeswoman said, per the survivor’s explanation.
She said, “that the generator must have wreaked the havoc that befell them before it put itself off when the fuel inside it finished,”
The wife said further that she later found out that both of them had fallen off their bed and that her late husband struggled to get out of bed after which he fell.
While Falodun is said to be recuperating at Ore Ofe Hospital, Owode-Egba, the corpse of Ikechukwu was said to have been deposited at the General Hospital, Owode-Egba for autopsy.