Residents of
No.176 Azikiwe Road Aba were thrown into grief and confusion, after two sewage
staff were reportedly found dead inside a soak away pit in Aba, the
commercial
nerve of Abia State.
It was
gathered that the two sewage staff identified as Chimamkpa and Orji attached to
a popular sewage disposal company in the city, had gone to the building to
evacuate solid waste when they met their untimely death.
Though there
are different stories on what led to the death of the sewage staff, ranging
from sewage disposal chemical they might have inhaled to some superstitious
believe of been killed by evil forces, however a resident of the area who
simply gave his name as Ndubuisi said that the two men came to work in the
building and after they might have finished evacuating the solid waste, one of
them came out through the pit’s manhole.
After
the man came out, he decided to assist
his colleague to come out by giving him his hand. However as the sewer inside
held his colleague’s hand to come out, both of them according to Ndubuisi fell
back into the pit and were unable to come out. Before any help could come their
way, both men were stone dead.
“The
incident happened so sudden, it was like a magic. When the one outside fell
back into the soak away pit, people thought he would come out with his
colleague.
“But after
waiting for a while none of them came out, people around decided to break the
cover of the soak away pit only to find the two men dead and police were called
in immediately" he said.
The Nation
reported that all efforts made to reach one Mr. Amaobi said to be the manager
the sewage disposal company where the two men worked before their death proved
abortive, as calls on his mobile phone was answered by a man who said he was
not in charge and could not speak on the issue.
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